Tufted

a. [f. TUFT sb. and v. + -ED.]

  1.  Having or adorned with a tuft or tufts. a. Adorned with tufts or clumps of trees or bushes.

1606.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. iv. II. Magnif., 1106. The tufted tops of sacred Libanon.

1779.  Mirror, No. 43, ¶ 3. A stream … circled round a tufted plain, and formed a little lake in front of a village.

1810.  Scott, Lady of L., I. xiii. Tall rocks and tufted knolls.

1883.  R. Bridges, Prometheus, 148. The cones And needles of the fir … are strewn upon the tufted floor.

  b.  Adorned with tufts of some fabric, as a garment, or with a natural tuft, as the tail or other part of an animal.

1651.  in Verney Mem. (1907), I. 480. 2 Tufted Holland Wastcoates.

1662.  Irish Stat. (1765), II. 411. Linnen cloth or canvas called stript or tufted canvas.

1709.  Steele, Tatler, No. 45, ¶ 5. A young Gentleman who sat next me … in a tufted Gown.

1774.  Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1776), III. 291. The tail long, and tufted at the point … like the lion.

1815.  Kirby & Sp., Entomol., iii. (1818), I. 63. Head … adorned with elegantly tufted antennæ.

1877.  Knight, Dich. Mech., Tufted fabric, a fabric in which tufts are set, as in the old form of Turkish and Persian carpets.

  c.  Her. Having the tuft (of the tail) of a specified tincture.

1761.  Brit. Mag., II. 13. An antelope,… gules;… chained, armed, crested, tufted, and hoofed, or.

1864.  Boutell, Her. Hist. & Pop., xvii. § 3 (ed. 3), 281. An unicorn arg., armed, maned and tufted or.

  d.  Of a bird: Having a tuft of feathers upon the head; crested: esp. in Ornith. as the epithet of a particular species.

1758.  Pennant, Zool., II. 458. The Tufted Duck.

1770.  M. Bruce, in Life, etc., xii. (1914), 176. From her low nest the tufted lark upsprings.

1785.  Pennant, Arct. Zool., II. 432. Tufted Auk.

1807.  Col. Hawker, Diary (1893), I. 6. I saw 5 tufted ducks.

1833.  Tennyson, New-Year’s Eve, v. The tufted plover [will] pipe along the fallow lea.

1883.  Fisheries Exhib. Catal. (ed. 4), 134. Tufted Cormorant or ‘Shag.’

  2.  Formed into or forming a tuft; growing in a tuft or tufts; clustered.

1632.  Milton, L’Allegro, 78. Towers and Battlements … Boosom’d high in tufted Trees. Ibid. (1637), Lycidas, 143. The tufted Crow-toe, and pale Gessamine.

1740.  Somerville, Hobbinol, I. 101. The tufted Cowslips breathe their faint Perfume.

1807.  Wordsw., Wh. Doe, VII. 142. A hut, by tufted trees defended.

1853.  Chr. G. Rossetti, Poems (1904), 152/2. The stream shines silver in the tufted grass.

  3.  Nat. Hist. (esp. as the epithet of a particular species or variety: see quots. See also 1 d.) Bot. Bearing flowers in tufts or fascicles. b. Bot. and Zool. Growing in tufts, cæspitose.

1629.  Tufted Colombines [see COLUMBINE sb.² 3].

1707.  Mortimer, Husb. (1721), II. 226. Cowslips are of various kinds…: The double green ones, the single green, the tufted,… &c.

1805.  R. W. Dickson, Pract. Agric., II. 895. The Tufted Vetch … might … be useful … as a green fodder.

1857.  Miss Pratt, Flower. Pl., IV. 237. L[ysimachia] thyrsiflora (Tufted Loosestrife).

1872.  Nicholson, Palæont., 95. The corallum is cæspitose, or tufted.

Mod.  Tufted violas of many colors.

  4.  Comb., as tufted-eared, -necked adjs.

1811.  Shaw, Gen. Zool., VIII. 236. Tufted Eared Creeper. Ibid., 345. Tufted-necked Humming-bird.

  Hence Tuftedness, the quality of being tufted; in quot. concr. a tufted structure.

1663.  Hooke, Microgr., xlvi. 195. A seeming tuftedness or brushy part on each side.