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Plume v. t. (past & past part. plumed; pres. part. pluming)

To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink. "Pluming her wings among the breezy bowers."

To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel. (Obs.)

To adorn with feathers or plumes. "Farewell the plumed troop."

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

... in the Scuola. No one but Tintoretto could have evoked the fiend in his 'Temptation of Christ.' It is an indescribable hermaphroditic genius, the genius of carnal fascination, with outspread downy rose-plumed wings, and flaming bracelets on the full but sinewy arms, who kneels and lifts aloft great stones, smiling entreatingly to the sad, grey Christ seated beneath a rugged pent-house of the desert. No one again but Tintoretto ...

— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece • John Addington Symonds

... a heap better'n that," replied Morris, who plumed himself on being the "properest talking colored gentleman on the plantation." "Git up, heah," he shouted to his horses. "Don't you know that the long-lost prodigal son has come back? You don't want to say too much around heah. ...

— True To His Colors • Harry Castlemon

... The ambitious white-plumed Henri de Navarre, when he became Henri IV of France, set about to connect the tentacle which stretched southward from the Old Louvre with the Tuileries (a continuation of the project of Catherine de Medici), and, by the ...

— Royal Palaces and Parks of France • Milburg Francisco Mansfield

... or thanks to my host for his courtesy. I began to fear that my sense of self-respect would compel my return, and rather would I have faced a battalion of the British than another flash from those dark eyes; nor could I hope to make another so masterly a retreat as I plumed myself this one had been. But as I glanced back toward the house on the bluffs that had proved my undoing, to my intense relief I saw that the three gentlemen had followed not far behind me and were even now descending ...

— The Rose of Old St. Louis • Mary Dillon

... armed, every weapon burnished clean of rust and ready for instant use. Some wore tarnished, sea-stained finery looted from hapless prizes, a brocaded waistcoat, a pair of tasseled jack-boots, a plumed hat, a ruffled cape. The heads of several were bound around with knotted kerchiefs on which dark stains showed,—marks of a brawl aboard the brig or ...

— Blackbeard: Buccaneer • Ralph D. Paine

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