Word Meanings - PLUMELET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small plume. When rosy plumelets tuft the larch. Tennyson.

Related words: (words related to PLUMELET)

• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• LARCH
  A genus of coniferous trees, having deciduous leaves, in fascicles . Note: The European larch is Larix Europæa. The American or black larch is L. Americana, the hackmatack or tamarack. The trees are generally of a drooping, graceful appearance.
• 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
• PLUMERY
  Plumes, collectively or in general; plumage. Southey.
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• PLUMELET
  A small plume. When rosy plumelets tuft the larch. Tennyson.
• TENNYSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc.
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• SMALLS
  See 3
• SMALLSWORD
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• LARCHEN
  Of or pertaining to the larch. Keats.
• PLUMELESS
  Without plumes.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• SEMIPLUME
  A feather which has a plumelike web, with the shaft of an ordinary feather.
• PHYLARCHY
  The office of a phylarch; government of a class or tribe.
• HYLARCHICAL
  Presiding over matter. Hallywell.
• CORNIPLUME
  A hornlike tuft of feathers on the head of some birds.
• ABYSMALLY
  To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.
• PHYLARCH
  The chief of a phyle, or tribe. (more info) Antiq.)
• IMPLUMED
  Not plumed; without plumes or feathers; featherless. Drayton.
• POLARCHY
  See POLYARCHY