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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tuft \Tuft\, verb (used without an object) To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tuft \Tuft\, noun [Prov. E. tuff, F. touffe; of German origin; cf. G. zopf a weft of hair, pigtail, top of a tree. See {Top} summit.]
1. A collection of small, flexible, or soft things in a knot or bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster; as, a tuft of flowers or feathers.
2. A cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants.
Under a tuft of shade. --Milton.
Green lake, and cedar fuft, and spicy glade. --Keble.
3. A nobleman, or person of quality, especially in the English universities; -- so called from the tuft, or gold tassel, on the cap worn by them. [Cant, Eng.]
Several young tufts, and others of the faster men. --T. Hughes.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tuft \Tuft\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Tufted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tufting}.]
1. To separate into tufts.
2. To adorn with tufts or with a tuft. --Thomson.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tuft
noun
1: a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass [syn: {tussock}]
2: a bunch of feathers or hair
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "tuft": Vandyke, bang, bangs, batch, beard, beaver, bristles, bunch, clump, cluster, copse, crest, crop, down, feather, fetlock, fleck, flock, forelock, fringe, goatee, group, grouping, groupment, grove, growth, hackle, hassock, imperial, knot, lot, mess, panache, peach fuzz, pinion, plantation, planting, plume, plumule, quiff, quill, scapular, shock, side whiskers, slew, stand, stook, stubble, thicket, topknot, tussock, whiskers, wisp
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