tuff 
does not differ, except in color and degree of compactness, 
from the modern sperone (lapis Gabinns), or from the so- 
called manziana (lapis Anitianus). These are all frag- 
mental rocks made up of more or less firmly compacted 
volcanic cinders and ashes, and are all included under the 
term tufas used by_English geologists. 
tuff-cone (tuf'kou), n. A conical elevation 
made up of ashes ov other fragmentary erup- 
tive material accumulated around a volcanic 
orifice. 
The materials of a tuff-cone are arranged in more or less 
regularly stratified beds. 
Geikie, Text-Book of Geol. (2d ed.), p. 227. 
tuffoont, " An obsolete form of typhoon. 
Tufnell S bandage. An immovable bandage 
stiffened with a paste of white of egg and flour. 
Also called egg-and-flour bandage. 
tuft 1 (tuft), . [< ME. toft, a piece of ground, 
< AS. toft, < Icel. topi, tupt, toft, tuft, tomt, a 
piece of ground: see to/Y 1 .] 1. A green knoll. 
See toft 1 . 2. A grove ; a plantation; a clump. 
If you will know my house, 
Tis at the tuft of olives, here hard by. 
Shak., As you Like it, iii. 5. 76. 
Yon tuft of hazel-trees. Wordsworth, Green Linnet. 
tuft 1 (tuft), v. t. [< tuffl, n.] To beat up (a 
thicket or covert) in stag-hunting. 
With his hounds 
The labouring hunter tufts the thick unbarb4d grounds 
Where harbour'd is the Hart. 
Drayton, Polyolbion, xiii. 112. 
tuft 2 (tuft), n. [Also tuff; < ME. tuft, toft, a 
later form (with unorig -t, prob. due in part to 
confusion with tuffl) of te/ 1 : see tuffl.] 1. 
A bunch of soft and flexible things fixed at the 
base with the upper part loose, especially when 
the whole is small : as, a tuft of feathers. 
Upon the cop right of his nose he hade 
A werte, and thereon stood a tuft of heres. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 656. 
With a knoppe, othirwyse callyd a tuft, of blak sylke. 
Bury Wills (ed. Tymms), p. 36 (in a will of 1463). 
A light-green tuft of plumes she bore, 
Closed in a golden ring. 
Tennyson, Launcelot and Guinevere. 
2f. A turban. 
Tiara, a Turkish tuffe, such as the Turkes weare at this 
day on their head. Nomenclator, 1686. (Kares.) 
Antonius, being brought to the king where hee wintered, 
was gladly received, and graced with the promotion to 
weare a tu/e_ or turbant (which honour they enjoy that be 
allowed to sit at the kings boord, and who for good desert 
among the Persians may open their mouthes in solemne 
assemblies, to persuade and deliver their minds). 
Ammianus Marcellinus (1609). (Nares.) 
3f. A crest. 
He is my nephew, and my chief, the point, 
Tip, top, and tuft of all our family ! 
B. Jonson, Staple of News, ii. 1. 
4. An imperial. [Colloq.] 
Do you like those tufts that gentlemen wear sometimes 
on their chins? Thackeray, Fitz-Boodle's Confessions. 
5. In anat., a rete; a glomerulus. See cut 
under Malpiglnan. 6. In bot., a fascicle of 
flowers on their several partial peduncles; a 
cluster of radical leaves ; a clump or tussock of 
stems from a common root, as in many grasses 
and sedges; hence, any analogous bundle. 
The round tufts or heads of Fennel], which contains the 
seed, are exceeding wholsome to be eaten. 
T. Vernier, Via Recta (ed. 1637), p. 219. 
7. An undergraduate who bears a title: so 
called from the tuft worn on his cap to indi- 
cate his rank. [Eng. university slang: com- 
pare quotation under tufted, 1.] 
He used to give the young noblemen the most painful 
and elaborate breakfasts. ... It was good to watch him 
in the midst of a circle of young tufts, with his mean, 
smiling, eager, uneasy familiarity. 
Thackeray, Book of Snobs, xiv. 
Branchial, Malpighlan, etc. , tuft. See the adj ectives. 
London-tuft. Same as London-pride. 2. Spanish- 
tuft. See Thalictrum. 
tuft 2 (tuft), v. [< tuft*, TO.] I. trans. 1. To 
separate or combine into tufts. 
Weeds cluster and tuft themselves on the cornices of 
ruins. Hawthorne, Marble Faun, viii. 
2. To affix a tuft to ; cover or stud with tufts, 
or as if with tufts. 
The tufted tops of sacred Libanon, 
To climb Mount Sion, down the stream are gon. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Magnificence. 
To make old bareness picturesque, 
And tuft with grass a feudal tower. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, cxxviii. 
Pines begin to tuft the slopes of gently rising hills. 
J. A. Symonds, Italy and Greece, p. 295. 
3. In upholstery, to draw together (a cushion or 
an upholstered covering) by passing a thread 
through it at regular intervals, the depressions 
thus produced beiug usually covered with tufts 
or buttons. 
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II. i H trans. To grow in tufts ; form a tuft or 
tufts. Holland. 
tuftaffetat (tuf-taf'e-ta), n. [< tuffl + taffeta.] 
A taffeta woven with a pile like that of velvet, 
arranged in tufts or spots. 
Sleeveless his jerkin was, and it had been 
Velvet, but 'twas now (so much ground was seen) 
Become tuftafaty. Donne, Satires, iv. 
This fellow ! that came with a tuftafata jerkin to town 
but the other day, and a pair of pennyless hose. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iv. L 
tufted (tufted), p. a. [< tuft* + -ed.~] 1. 
Having a tuft or tufts ; especially, crested: as, 
the tufted duck. 
The gold-tufted cap, 
which at Cambridge 
only designates a John- 
ian or Small-College 
Fellow-Commoner, is 
here [at Oxford] the 
mark of nobility. 
C. A. Bristed, English 
[University, p. 176. 
2. Formed into a 
tuft or cluster ; 
growing in tufts ; tufty: as, tufted moss ; tufted 
structure in mineralogy Tufted columbine. See 
Thalictrum. Tufted duck, Fuligula cristata, a common 
duck of the Palearctic region, very near the scaup and 
the pochard, with crested head. The male is 17 inches 
long, with a leaden-blue bill having a black nail ; the feet 
Tufted Structure. Stilbite. 
Tufted Duck (1-uligula cristata}. 
are dusky ; the general plumage is black, iridescent on the 
head, on the back minutely dotted with gray; the belly 
and a large wing-area are pure-white ; the female is mainly 
brown where the male is black. Tufted fabric, a fabric 
in which tufts are set, as in the old form of Turkish and 
Persian carpets, in which tufts are set in on the warp and 
then locked in by the shooting of the weft and the cross- 
ing of the warp-threads. E. H. Knight. Tufted loose- 
Strife. See loosestrife. Tufted tit or titmouse. See 
(its, andcutunder titmouse. Tufted umber. See umber- 
bird, and cut under Scopus. Tufted vetch. See vetch. 
tufter (tuf'ter), . [< tuffl + -eri.] A stag- 
hound employed to drive a deer out of cover. 
Encyc. Brit., XII. 394. 
tuftgill (tuft'gil), n. A tuft-gilled fish, or lopho- 
branch. 
tuft-gilled (tuft'gild), a. Having tufted gills ; 
cirribranchiate or lophobranchiate. Specifically 
(a) Noting the tooth-shells or Dentaliidse. See Cirri- 
branchiata, and cut under tooth-shell. (6) Noting the sea- 
horses and related fishes. See Lophobranchii, and cuts 
under Hippocampidee, pipe-fish, and Solenostomug. 
tuft-hunter (tuft'hun"ter), n. One who seeks 
or covets the society of titled persons ; one who 
courts the acquaintance of celebrities at any 
sacrifice of personal dignity ; a toady ; a syco- 
phant. The term took its rise at the English universi- 
ties from a tuft worn on the cap by young noblemen. 
[Slang, Eng.i 
At Eton a great deal of snobbishness was thrashed out 
of Lord Buckram, and he was birched with perfect impar- 
tiality. Even there, however, a select band of sucking 
tuft-hunters followed him. Thackeray, Book of Snobs, v. 
He was at no time the least of a tufthunter, but rather 
had a marked natural indifference to tufts. 
Carlyle, Sterling, ii. 3. 
tuft-hunting (tuft'hun"ting), n. The practice of 
a tuft-hunter. Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, i. 8. 
tufting-button (tufting-but'on), n. A style 
of button used in upholstery. See tuft 2 , v. t., 
3. Car-Builder's Diet. 
tuft-moccadot (tuft'mok"a-d6), n. Tufted moc- 
cado. See moccado. 
Shee had a red lace, and a stomacher of tuft mackado. 
Greene's Vision. 
My skin all overwrought with worke like some kinde of 
tuft mockado, with crosses blew and red. 
JJr. Lite's Diary, quoted in Draper's Diet., p. 225. 
tuggingly 
tufty 1 (tuf'ti), a. [< tuffl + -?/ 1 .] Abounding 
in tufts ; wooded. 
The sylvans . . . about the neighbouring woods did dwell, 
Both in the tufty frith and in the mossy fell. 
Drayton, Polyolbion, xvii. 387. 
tufty 2 (tuf'ti), a. [< tufft + -#l.] 1. Abound- 
ing in tufts or knots. 
Here the ground lay jagged and shaggy, wrought up 
with high tufts of reed, . . . this tufty, flaggy ground. 
JR. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, lix. 
2. Growing in tufts. 
Where tufty daisies nod at every gale. 
W. Browne, Britannia's Pastorals, i. 5. 
tug (tug), v. ; pret. and pp. tugged, ppr. tugging. 
[< ME. tut/gen, toggen, togen, a secondary form 
of tuklcen, pull : see tacfc 1 , toic 1 , fee 1 .] I. trans. 
1. To pull or draw with sturdy effort or vio- 
lent strain ; haul with force ; pull. 
Togyd with tene [sorrow] was god of prys ; 
To don hym sorwe was here delys [their delight] ; 
He seyde no word loth. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 248. 
Turkes slauish tugging oares. 
Dekker, Londons Tempe (Works, ed. Pearson, IV. 119). 
As when a slaughter'd bull's yet-reeking hide, 
Strain'd with full force, and tugg'd from side to side, 
The brawny curriers stretch. Pope, Iliad, xvii. 451. 
And [the satyrs] tug their shaggy Beards, and bite with 
Grief the Ground. Congrece, Death of Queen Mary. 
2. To tow by means of a steam-tug: as, the 
vessel had to be tugged into port. 
II. intrans. 1. To pull with great effort; 
haul; drag. 
The meaner sort [of Dalmatians] will tug lustily at one 
oare. Sandys, Travailes, p. 2. 
2. To exert one's self; labor; strive; struggle; 
contend; wrestle. 
The seas are rough and wider 
Than his weak arms can tug with. 
Ford, Perkin Warbeck, v. 2. 
They tug, they strain ! down, down they go, 
The Gael above, Fitz-James below. 
Scott, L. of the L., v. 16. 
tug (tug), n. [< tuff, v.; in part ult. a var. of 
tow 2 , a rope, etc., and connected with We 1 , a 
band, rope, etc. ; all from the ult. verb repre- 
sented by tee 1 .] 1. The act of pulling, drag- 
ging, or hauling with effort, exertion, or diffi- 
culty. 
The idle vessel slides that wat'ry way, 
Without the blast or tug of wind or oar. 
Quarles, Emblems, iv. 3. 
2. A supreme effort; the severest strain or 
struggle; a contest; wrestle; tussle. 
She had seen from the window Tartar in full tug with 
two carriers' dogs, each of them a match for him in size. 
Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, xx. 
3. A vehicle used in some parts of England for 
conveying timber or fagots. 
I have seen one tree on a carriage which they call there 
[in Sussex] a Tug, drawn by twenty-two oxen. 
Defoe, Tour through Great Britain, I. 204. (Dairies.) 
4. A small but powerful steam-vessel, whether 
screw or paddle, constructed for the purpose of 
towing other vessels. 6. A chain, strong rope, 
or leather strap used as a trace ; a trace (of a 
harness). 
It [tugge] signifieth the pull or draught of the oxen or 
horses, and therefore the leathers that beare the chiefe 
stresse of the draught the cartars call then tugges. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 229. 
My fur ahin' [off wheel-horse] 's a wordy [worthy] beast 
As e'er in tug or tow was trac'd. Burns, The Inventory. 
6. In mining, an iron hoop to which a tackle is 
affixed. To hold one tugt, to keep one busily em- 
ployed; keep one in work. 
There was work enough for a curious and critical Anti- 
quary, that would hold him tugg for a whole yeare. 
Life of A. Wood (by himself), p. 206. 
To hold tugt, to stand severe handling or hard work. 
Tug Of war. (a) A severe and laborious contest. 
When Greeks join'd Greeks, then was the tug of War. 
Lee, Alexander the Great, iv. 2. 
(&) An athletic contest in which a number of persons, 
generally four on each side and limited to a certain weight, 
tug at the ends of a rope, each side trying to pull the rope 
from the other, or to pull the other side over a line marked 
on the ground between the contestants. Also called rope- 
pull. 
tugan, n. Same as tucan. 
tugboat (tug'bot), n. A strongly built steam- 
boat used for towing sailing and other vessels ; 
a towboat ; a tug. 
tug-carrier (tug'kar"i-er), n. An attachment 
to the back-strap of a wagon-harness. E. H. 
Knight. 
tugger (tug'er), n. One who tugs, or pulls with 
effort. 
The luggers at the oar. William Morris, Sigurd, i. 
tuggingly (t-.;g'ing-li), tiilr. With laborious 
pulling. 
