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North German (Plümer) and English
North German (Plümer) and English : variant of Plum, the suffix -er denoting habitation or occupation.Altered form of South German Pflümer, an occupational name for a grower or seller of plums, from an agent derivative of Middle High German pflūme ‘plum’.English : variant of Plummer 1.English and Dutch : occupational name for a dealer in feathers and quills, from an agent derivative of Middle English plume, Middle Dutch pluim ‘feather’, ‘plume’.
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English : occupational name for a worker in lead, especially a maker of lead pipes and conduits, from Anglo-Norman French plom(m)er, plum(m)er ‘plumber’, from plom(b), plum(b) ‘lead’ (Latin plumbum).English : variant of Plumer 1, 3.English : occasionally, a habitational name from a minor place name, such as Plummers in Kimpton, Hertfordshire, which was named with Old English plum ‘plum(tree)’ + mere ‘pool’. The name is also established in Ireland, taken there from England in the 17th century.
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plumed life.
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French, Hindu, Indian, Japanese, Latin, Spanish
Tuft; Plume; Frenchman; Free; Nickname for Francisco and Frank
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English : metonymic occupational name for a dealer in feathers, from Middle English, Old French plume ‘feather’ (Latin pluma).English and North German : variant of Plum.Catalan (Plumé) : variant of plomer, occupational name for a worker in lead, from a derivative of plom ‘lead’.
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Destitute of bards, or of reversed points, hairs, or plumes; as, an unbarded feather.
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Without plumes.
v. t.
To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink.
n.
Plumes, collectively or in general; plumage.
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v. t.
To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; -- used reflexively.
v. t.
To strip of plumes or feathers; hence, to humiliate.
n.
Any hydroid belonging to Plumularia and other genera of the family Plumularidae. They generally grow in plumelike forms.
v. t.
To adorn with feathers or plumes.
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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.
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A small plume.
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Any moth of the genus Pterophorus and allied genera; a plume moth. See Plume moth, under Plume.
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Covered or adorned with plumes, or as with plumes; feathery.
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Having hairs, or other parts, arranged along an axis like a feather; feathery; plumelike; as, a plumose leaf; plumose tentacles.
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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.
v. t.
To pride; to vaunt; to boast; -- used reflexively; as, he plumes himself on his skill.
v. i.
To bend or incline the upper part, with a quick motion; as, nodding plumes.
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A feather which has a plumelike web, with the shaft of an ordinary feather.
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A large stork of the genus Leptoptilos (formerly Ciconia), esp. the African species (L. crumenifer), which furnishes plumes worn as ornaments. The Asiatic species (L. dubius, or L. argala) is the adjutant. See Adjutant.