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Plume   /plum/   Listen
Plume

noun
1.
Anything that resembles a feather in shape or lightness.  "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.  Synonyms: feather, plumage.
verb
(past & past part. plumed; pres. part. pluming)
1.
Rip off; ask an unreasonable price.  Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, rob, soak, surcharge.
2.
Be proud of.  Synonyms: congratulate, pride.
3.
Deck with a plume.
4.
Clean with one's bill.  Synonym: preen.
5.
Form a plume.  "The engine was pluming black smoke"
6.
Dress or groom with elaborate care.  Synonyms: dress, preen, primp.



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"Plume" Quotes from Famous Books



... onward. Manoeuvering cautiously, jockeying the great machine with that consummate skill he had acquired from long practice, he soon beheld the dim outlines of the vast cliff, the long walls, the dull reflections of the fire-plume, the ...
— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England
... used in probing the weaknesses of his own nature and in displaying them to the world, he used likewise in his dealings with others. If he detected Branda Porro or Camutio in a blunder he would inform them they were blockheads without hesitation, and plume himself afterwards on the score of his blunt honesty. Veracity was not a common virtue in those days, but Cardan laid claim to it with a display of insistence which was not, perhaps, in the best ...
— Jerome Cardan - A Biographical Study • William George Waters
... was out Macfarlane's prophecy had been fulfilled. Fettes had outlived his terrors and had forgotten his baseness. He began to plume himself upon his courage, and had so arranged the story in his mind that he could look back on these events with an unhealthy pride. Of his accomplice he saw but little. They met, of course, in the business of the class; they received their orders together from Mr. K——. At times they had a word ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... was not the least use, my poor Alicia, to ride about the lanes around Audley during those three days which the two young men spent in Essex; it was wasted trouble to wear that pretty cavalier hat and plume, and to be always, by the most singular of chances, meeting Robert and his friend. The black curls (nothing like Lady Audley's feathery ringlets, but heavy clustering locks, that clung about your slender brown throat), the red and pouting lips, the nose inclined to be retrousse, the dark ...
— Lady Audley's Secret • Mary Elizabeth Braddon
... uneasily. It was a true statement, and therefore an indiscreet. Grodman would plume himself terribly. At this moment Wimp felt that Grodman had been right in remaining a bachelor. Grodman perceived the humor of the situation, and ...
— The Big Bow Mystery • I. Zangwill


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