1. Anything that resembles a feather in shape or lightness
   "a plume of smoke"; "grass with large plumes" 
2. A feather or cluster of feathers worn as an ornament 
3. The light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds
   - feather, plumage

1. Rip off; ask an unreasonable price
   - overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump [Brit], fleece, pluck, rob, hook 
2. Be proud of
   - pride, congratulate 
3. Deck with a plume
   "a plumed helmet" 
4. Clean with one's bill
   - preen 
5. Form a plume
   "The chimneys were pluming the sky"; "The engine was pluming black smoke" 
6. Dress or groom with elaborate care
   - preen, primp, dress

Derived forms: plumed, pluming, plumes

Type of: adornment, animal material, arrange, attire, bedeck, bedight, body covering, cheat, chisel, clean, deck, deck out, deck up, dress up, experience, fancy up, feel, fig out, fig up, form, get up, gussy up [N. Amer], make clean, overdress, prink, rig out, rip off, set up, shape, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up

Part of: bird

Encyclopedia: Plume

• spoonerism
• spoonfeed
• spoonfeeding
• spoonflower
• spoonful
• spoonleaf yucca
• spoony
• spoor
• sporadic
• sporadically
• sporangiophore
• sporangium
• Sporanox
• spore
• spore case
• spore mother cell
• spore sac
• spore-bearing
• Spork
• Sporobolus
• Sporobolus cryptandrus
• Thomas Gray
• Thomas Hardy
• Thomas Hart Benton
• Thomas Hastings