tuft /tuft/

1. A bunched cluster
2. A clump
3. A crest
4. A separate lock of hair
5. Any of the cut or uncut loops of wool, etc forming the pile of a carpet or rug
6. A goatee or imperial beard
7. A small tassel
8. A gold tassel formerly worn on a nobleman's cap in the English universities
9. Hence, a titled undergraduate
10. A person of social consequence

1. To separate into tufts
2. To make or decorate with tufts
3. To beat (the ground) in deer-hunting
4. To dislodge (game)

tuftˈed adjective

1. Having or made of tufts
2. Having many short crowded branches all arising at or near the same level (botany)
3. (of birds) with a tuft or crest of feathers on the head

tuftˈer noun

A hound that drives deer out of cover

tuftˈing noun

• abscised
• abscises
• abscisic acid
• abscisin
• abscising
• abscisins
• absciss
• abscissa
• abscissae
• abscissas
• abscisse
• abscisses
• abscissin
• abscissins
• abscission
• abscission layer
• abscissions
• absciss layer
• abscond
• absconded
• abscondence
• abscondences
• absconder
• absconders
• absconding