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Plume  v. t.  (past & past part. plumed; pres. part. pluming)  
1.
To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink. "Pluming her wings among the breezy bowers."
2.
To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel. (Obs.)
3.
To adorn with feathers or plumes. "Farewell the plumed troop."
4.
To pride; to vaunt; to boast; used reflexively; as, he plumes himself on his skill.
Plumed adder (Zool.), an African viper (Vipera cornuta, syn. Clotho cornuta), 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 (Zool.), the California mountain quail (Oreortyx pictus). See Mountain quail, under Mountain.






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"Plumed" Quotes from Famous Books



... steed neighed, I could see Snowflake more clearly, in trappings of gay crimson, with silver bells, amid many others prancing impatiently, champing their bits as they waited; for it pleased me to come out last, when all were mounted. Then the riders lifted their plumed caps when I appeared, while Wilfred, pushing my page aside, did swing me into the saddle. Thus, with shouting and laughter and winding of horn, we would all ride out to the hunt or the tourney; I first, on Snowflake; Wilfred, ...
— The White Ladies of Worcester - A Romance of the Twelfth Century • Florence L. Barclay

... the life of thy only child. And dost thou reproach me with the calamities thou hast brought upon me? Remember what I was, before thy avarice and ambition cancelled the ties of blood and gratitude, crushed me to the earth, and plumed thy borrowed pomp with the wings of my lineal greatness. I am now a lame, old, destitute Loyalist; yet, for ten thousand worlds, I would not cease to be the thing I am, if the alternative must be to become what thou art; a meteor, born ...
— The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 - An Historical Novel • Jane West

... his plumed cap, showing the same dark head and long, almost equine face which the King had so often seen rising out of the high collar of Bond Street. Except for a grey patch on each temple, ...
— The Napoleon of Notting Hill • Gilbert K. Chesterton

... mescal plants with long, yellow-plumed spears broke the bare monotony of the plateau. And Slone passed from red sand and gravel to a red, soft shale, and from that to hard, red rock. Here Wildfire's tracks were lost, the first time in seven weeks. But Slone had his direction down that plateau with the cleavage ...
— The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories • Various

... now changed again— And borne on plumed steed, I saw thee o'er the battle-plain Our land's defenders lead: And stronger in thy beauty's charms, Than man, with countless hosts in arms, Thy voice, like music, cheered the Free, Thy very ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al


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