noun. A short cluster of elongated strands, as of yarn, hair, or grass, attached at the base or growing close together.

noun. A dense clump, especially of trees or bushes.

intransitive verb. To furnish or ornament with tufts or a tuft.

intransitive verb. To pass threads through the layers of (a quilt, mattress, or upholstery), securing the thread ends with a knot or button.

intransitive verb. To separate or form into tufts.

intransitive verb. To grow in a tuft.

To separate or combine into tufts.

To affix a tuft to: cover or stud with tufts, or as if with tufts.

In upholstery, to draw together (a cushion or an upholstered covering) by passing a thread through it at regular intervals, the depressions thus produced being usually covered with tufts or buttons.

To grow in tufts; form a tuft or tufts.

noun. A green knoll. See toft.

noun. A grove; a plantation; a clump.

To beat up (a thicket or covert) in stag-hunting.

noun. A bunch of soft and flexible things fixed at the base with the upper part loose, especially when the whole is small: as, a tuft of feathers.

noun. A turban.

noun. A crest.

noun. An imperial.

noun. In anat, a rete; a glomerulus. See cut under Malpighian.

noun. In botany, a fascicle of flowers on their several partial peduncles; a cluster of radical leaves; a clump or tussock of stems from a common root, as in many grasses and sedges; hence, any analogous bundle.

noun. An undergraduate who bears a title: so called from the tuft worn on his cap to indicate his rank.

intransitive verb. To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.

transitive verb. To separate into tufts.

transitive verb. To adorn with tufts or with a tuft.

noun. A collection of small, flexible, or soft things in a knot or bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster.

noun. A cluster; a clump.

noun. 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.

noun. A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.

noun. A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.

noun. A small clump of trees or bushes.

noun. A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.

noun. A person entitled to wear such a tassel.

verb. To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.

verb. To form into tufts.

verb. To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts.

verb. To be formed into tufts.

noun. a bunch of feathers or hair

noun. a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass

"When boys are first shaved generally in the second or third year, a tuft is left on the crown and another over the forehead; but this is not the fashion amongst adults."