Tuft /(?)/

1. A collection of small, flexible, or soft things in a knot or bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster; as, a tuft of flowers or feathers.
2. A cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants.

   Under a tuft of shade.

   Green lake, and cedar fuft, and spicy glade.

3. A nobleman, or person of quality, especially in the English universities; -- so called from the tuft, or gold tassel, on the cap worn by them. [Cant, Eng.]

   Several young tufts, and others of the faster men.

imp. & p. p. Tufted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tufting

1. To separate into tufts.
2. To adorn with tufts or with a tuft.

1. To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.