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Chaucer, Astrolabe, ii. 38. Bevel plumb-rule, a surveyors' instrument for adjusting the slope of embankments. E. II. Knight. plum - budder (plum'bud-er), n. Same as plum - bird . plumbum (plum'bum), n. [L.: see plumb2 .] Lead. plum-cake (plum'kāk'), n. IMG:content-0465.png:[blocks in formation] plum - colored (plum'kul"ord), a . Of the color of a plum; dark-purple. plum - curculio (plum'ker-kū"li-ō), n. A weevil, Conotrachelus nenuphar, which damages the plum, peach, and cherry. It is one of the most Doxious of the Curculio nidæ , and is commonly called the little Turk, from the characteristic crescent-shaped mark made by the female in the fruit in oviposition. See cut under Conotrachelus. plum -duff (plum'duf'), n. A stiff kind of flour pudding containing raisins and boiled in a bag: a favorite sea-dish. plume (plöm), n. [ plume , plome , plume , F. plume = Sp. Pg. plum a = It. pium a , a feather, plume, = MD. pluym , D. pluim , plume, Madam, you take your hen, Plume it, and skin it, cleanse it o' the inwards. IMG:content-0466.png:[ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small] yellowish brown Grape-vine Plume-moth ( Pterophorus peri scelidactylus). luster, marked a , caterpillars in their retreat; b , chrysalis; with several dull- c , one of the dorsal proce es of chrysalis, white streaks and enlargede, moth; e, one joint of larva, enspots, See Ptero larged, sid phoridæ. plume-nutmeg (plöm'nut"meg), n. A large tree of Australia and Tasmania, At hero sperm a moschata of the Monimiaceæ . It is aromatic in all its parts, and the fruit-carpels bear each a persi persistent plumose style. plume-plucked (plöm plukt), a . Stripped of a plume or plumes; hence, figuratively, humbled; brought down. [Rare.] Great Duke of Lancaster, I come to thee From plume - pluck'd Richard. Shak., Rich. II., iv. 1. 108. Plumeria (plö-mēʻri-ä), п. [NL. (Tournefort, B. Jonson , Devil is an A , iv. 1. 1700), named after Charles Plumier (1646-1706), And, after they have plum'd ye, return home, Like a couple of naked fowls, without a feather.