2. Verb. (third-person singular of tuft) ¹
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Definition of Tufts
1. tuft [v] - See also: tuft
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tufts
Literary usage of Tufts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1892)
"Nevertheless, it is understood and agreed by and between me and the said James W.
tufts that the title to the above-mentioned property does not pass to me, ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1907)
"The longer axis of the yellow tufts, or hour-glass, coincides with the plane of
polarisation of the incident light, and therefore rotates with the rotation ..."
3. The Apples of New York by Spencer Ambrose Beach, Nathaniel Ogden Booth, Orrin Morehouse Taylor (1905)
"tufts Baldwin (7, 10, 12, of some 3 and 5). tufts SEEDLING (i). An apple of the
Baldwin group, somewhat like Baldwin in form, color and general appearance, ..."
4. The Andover Review (1892)
"COLONEL GARDINER tufts. WHAT has most commended the Massachusetts Reformatory
... In a remarkable degree Colonel tufts brought to the management of a prison ..."
5. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1896)
"Ruff uniform white ; crown of head and occipital tufts rufous, ... The tufts on
the hinder crown vary, and generally assimilate in colour to the crown, ..."
6. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1855)
"All those which have blood, have a head as well. A small number of animals, and
those only among the birds, have tufts of various kinds upon the head. ..."
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