(Bot.), an aromatic Australian tree whose numerous carpels are tipped with long plumose persistent
styles.
Plume
(Plume), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plumed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pluming.] [Cf. F. plumer to pluck, to
strip, L. plumare to cover with feathers.]
1. To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink.
Pluming her wings among the breezy bowers.
W. Irving. 2. To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel. [Obs.] Bacon. Dryden.
3. To adorn with feathers or plumes. "Farewell the plumed troop." Shak.
4. To pride; to vaunt; to boast; — used reflexively; as, he plumes himself on his skill. South.
Plumed adder (Zoöl.),
an African viper having a plumelike structure over each eye. It is venomous, and
is related to the African puff adder. Called also horned viper and hornsman. — Plumed partridge
(Zoöl.), the California mountain quail See Mountain quail, under Mountain.
Plumeless
(Plume"less) a. Without plumes.
Plumelet
(Plume"let) n. [Plume + - let.] A small plume.
When rosy plumelets tuft the larch.
Tennyson. Plumery
(Plum"er*y) n. Plumes, collectively or in general; plumage. [R.] Southey.
Plumicorn
(Plu"mi*corn) n. [L. pluma feather + cornu horn.] (Zoöl.) An ear tuft of feathers, as in the
horned owls.
Plumigerous
(Plu*mig"er*ous) a. [L. plumiger; pluma a feather + gerere to bear.] Feathered; having
feathers. Bailey
Plumiliform
(Plu*mil"i*form) a. [L. plumula, or plumella a little feather (dim. of pluma feather) + -
form.] Having the of a plume or feather. [R.]
Plumiped
(Plu"mi*ped) a. [L. plumipes, -edis; pluma a feather + pes: cf. F. plumipède.] (Zoöl.) Having
feet covered with feathers. — n. A plumiped bird.
Plummet
(Plum"met) n. [OE. plommet, OF. plommet, fr. plom, plum, lead, F. plomb. See Plumb.]
1. A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water.
I'll sink him deeper than e'er plummet sounded.
Shak. 2. A plumb bob or a plumb line. See under Plumb, n.
3. Hence, any weight.
4. A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing.
Plummet line,
a line with a plummet; a sounding line.
Plumming
(Plum"ming) n. [See Plumb.] (Min.) The operation of finding, by means of a mine dial, the
place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or to find which way the lode inclines.