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Plume :: Plume (v. t.) To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel..

Kirumbo :: Kirumbo (n.) A bird of Madagascar (Leptosomus discolor), the only living type of a family allied to the rollers. It has a pair of loral plumes. The male is glossy green above, with metallic reflections; the female is spotted with brown and black..

Egret :: Egret (n.) A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament; an aigrette..

Plume :: Plume (v. t.) To pride; to vaunt; to boast; -- used reflexively; as, he plumes himself on his skill..

Pride :: Pride (v. t.) To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; -- used reflexively..

Emplumed :: Emplumed (a.) Plumed.

Beplumed :: Beplumed (a.) Decked with feathers.

Corniplume :: Corniplume (n.) A hornlike tuft of feathers on the head of some birds.

Deplume :: Deplume (v. t.) To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage.

Pennach :: Pennach (n.) A bunch of feathers; a plume.

Semiplume :: Semiplume (n.) A feather which has a plumelike web, with the shaft of an ordinary feather..

Plumassary :: Plumassary (n.) A plume or collection of ornamental feathers.

Crest :: Crest (v. t.) To mark with lines or streaks, like, or regarded as like, waving plumes..

Nod :: Nod (v. i.) To bend or incline the upper part, with a quick motion; as, nodding plumes..

Serpula :: Serpula (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..

Plume :: Plume (v. t.) To adorn with feathers or plumes.

Hypoptilum :: Hypoptilum (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.

Microlepidoptera :: Microlepidoptera (n. pl.) A tribe of Lepidoptera, including a vast number of minute species, as the plume moth, clothes moth, etc..

Displume :: Displume (v. t.) To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade..

Plume :: Plume (v.) A token of honor or prowess; that on which one prides himself; a prize or reward.

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