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Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form.
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a.
Covered or adorned with plumes, or as with plumes; feathery.
a.
Without plumes.
n.
A large stork of the genus Leptoptilos (formerly Ciconia), esp. the African species (L. crumenifer), which furnishes plumes worn as ornaments. The Asiatic species (L. dubius, or L. argala) is the adjutant. See Adjutant.
v. t.
To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink.
n.
Plumes, collectively or in general; plumage.
v. t.
To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; -- used reflexively.
n.
Any hydroid belonging to Plumularia and other genera of the family Plumularidae. They generally grow in plumelike forms.
a.
Having hairs, or other parts, arranged along an axis like a feather; feathery; plumelike; as, a plumose leaf; plumose tentacles.
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n.
A feather which has a plumelike web, with the shaft of an ordinary feather.
v. t.
To strip of plumes or feathers; hence, to humiliate.
v. t.
To adorn with feathers or plumes.
n.
Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae. They secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. The worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts.
v. t.
To pride; to vaunt; to boast; -- used reflexively; as, he plumes himself on his skill.
n.
An accessory plume arising from the posterior side of the stem of the contour feathers of many birds; -- called also aftershaft. See Illust. of Feather.
n.
A small plume.
n.
Any moth of the genus Pterophorus and allied genera; a plume moth. See Plume moth, under Plume.
a.
Destitute of bards, or of reversed points, hairs, or plumes; as, an unbarded feather.
v. i.
To bend or incline the upper part, with a quick motion; as, nodding plumes.
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