Vocabulary : Plumming to Plumping

Plumming : The operation of finding, by means of a mine dial, the place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or to find which way the lode inclines.
Plummy : Of the nature of a plum; desirable; profitable; advantageous.
Plumose : Alt. of Plumous
Plumosite : Same as Jamesonite.
Plumosity : The quality or state of being plumose.

Plumous : Having feathers or plumes. ;; Having hairs, or other parts, arranged along an axis like a feather; feathery; plumelike; as, a plumose leaf; plumose tentacles.
Plump : Done or made plump, or suddenly and without reservation; blunt; unreserved; direct; downright. ;; Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks. ;; A knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of trees, fowls, or spears. ;; To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped. ;; To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once. ;; To give a plumper. See Plumper, 2. ;; To make plump; to fill (out) or support; -- often with up. ;; To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily; as, to plump a stone into water. ;; To give (a vote), as a plumper. See Plumper, 2. ;; Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
Plumped : of Plump
Plumper : One who, or that which, plumps or swells out something else; hence, something carried in the mouth to distend the cheeks. ;; A vote given to one candidate only, when two or more are to be elected, thus giving him the advantage over the others. A person who gives his vote thus is said to plump, or to plump his vote. ;; A voter who plumps his vote. ;; A downright, unqualified lie.
Plumping : of Plump

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