Word Meanings - DISPLUME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade. Displumed, degraded, and metamorphosed. Burke.

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• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• METAMORPHOSE
  To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute. And earth was metamorphosed into man. Dryden.
• STRIPPING
  The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
• STRIP-LEAF
  Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing.
• STRIPLING
  A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. 1 Sam. xvii. 56.
• METAMORPHOSIC
  Changing the form; transforming. Pownall.
• STRIPPER
  One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
• DISHONOR
  The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn. Syn. -- Disgrace; ignominy; shame; censure; reproach; opprobrium. (more info) deshonur, F. déshonneur; pref. des- + honor, honur, F. 1. Lack of honor;
• DEGRADEMENT
  Deprivation of rank or office; degradation. Milton.
• METAMORPHOSER
  One who metamorphoses. Gascoigne.
• PLUME
  An ornamental tuft of feathers. 3. A feather, or group of feathers, worn as an ornament; a waving ornament of hair, or other material resembling feathers. His high plume, that nodded o'er his head. Dryden. 4. A token of honor or prowess; that on
• DISHONORABLE
  1. Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base. 2. Wanting in honor or esteem; disesteemed. He that is dishonorable in riches, how much more
• PLUMERY
  Plumes, collectively or in general; plumage. Southey.
• DEPRIVER
  One who, or that which, deprives.
• PLUMELET
  A small plume. When rosy plumelets tuft the larch. Tennyson.
• DEGRADE
  To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down. Syn. -- To abase; demean; lower; reduce. See Abase. (more info) 1. To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank' to deprive of office or dignity; to
• DEGRADATION
  A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, fro (more info) 1. The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution;
• STRIPED
  Having stripes of different colors; streaked. Striped bass. See under Bass. -- Striped maple , a slender American tree (Acer Pennsylvanicum) with finely striped bark. Called also striped dogwood, and moosewood. -- Striped mullet. See
• DEGRADINGLY
  In a degrading manner.
• DEPRIVE
  1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath
• DEDECORATION
  Disgrace; dishonor. Bailey.
• UNSTRIPED
  Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
• SEMIPLUME
  A feather which has a plumelike web, with the shaft of an ordinary feather.
• SELF-DEGRADATION
  The act of degrading one's self, or the state of being so degraded.
• OUTSTRIP
  To go faster than; to outrun; to advance beyond; to leave behing. Appetites which . . . had outstripped the hours. Southey. He still outstript me in the race. Tennyson.
• CORNIPLUME
  A hornlike tuft of feathers on the head of some birds.