Plume vs Glume - What's the difference?
plume | glume |
A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one.
* Milton
The furry tail of certain dog breeds (e.g. Samoyed, Malteagle) that stands erect or curls over their backs.
A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet.
* Dryden
A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides himself; a prize or reward.
* Milton
An upward spray of water or mist.
(geology) An upwelling of molten material from the Earth's mantle.
(astronomy) An arc of glowing material erupting from the surface of a star.
A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.
To preen and arrange the feathers of.
* Washington Irving
To congratulate (oneself) proudly.
To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel.
To adorn with feathers or plumes.
* Shakespeare
To form a plume.
To write; to pen.
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As nouns the difference between plume and glume
is that plume is a feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one while glume is a basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae.As a verb plume
is to preen and arrange the feathers of.plume
English
Noun
(en noun)- wings of many a coloured plume
- his high plume , that nodded o'er his head
- ambitious to win from me some plume
Derived terms
* plume grass * plume moth * plume nutmegVerb
(plum)- pluming her wings among the breezy bowers
- He plumes himself on his skill.
- (South)
- (Francis Bacon)
- (Dryden)
- Farewell the plumed troop.
- Smoke plumed from his pipe then slowly settled towards the floor.
- We mention this observation, not with any view of pretending to account for so odd a behaviour, but lest some critic should hereafter plume himself on discovering it.