different between quilling vs plume

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?l??

Noun

quilling (countable and uncountable, plural quillings)

1. (obsolete) A band of fluted muslin resembling a row of quills.
2. A form of art that involves the creation of decorative designs from thin strips of curled paper.
3. Quillwork.
   • 1998, Tressa L. Berman, Chapter 4: The Community as Worksite: American Indian Women's Artistic Production, Ann E. Kingsolver (editor), More Than Class: Studying Power in U.S. Workplaces, page 83,

     In this way, quilling arts were integral to band organization and cooperation, and functioned both within and between households as items of ceremonial exchange (i.e., "crosscutting" private and public domains).

4. (US and Canada, especially Appalachia and the Prairies) The practice of blowing pepper or snuff through a quill into the nose of a woman who is giving birth, to induce sneezing and diaphragmatic contractions which will induce or hasten labor.
   • 1915, Irving P. Fox (editor), The Spatula, Volume 22, page 466,

     Childbirth seldom was difficult, but when it was the simple process of "quilling" (which consisted in blowing at just the right time tobacco powder through the quill into the nostril) always brought on a huge sneeze, which immediately delivered the child.

   • 2003, Anita Price Davis, North Carolina During the Great Depression: A Documentary Portrait of a Decade, page 194,

     To muster the strength for the final push in childbirth, midwives like Granny Lewis of Burlington, North Carolina, quilled the mother-to-be. With quilling the midwife placed the snuff on one end of the straw and blew it into the nostril of the woman at the right time; the great sneeze that resulted from the woman was accompanied by the birth of the child. Granny Lewis and others used quilling well into the 1930s (Kirby, p192).

Verb

quilling

1. present participle of quill

See also

• quillwork

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?plu?m/, (obsolete) /?plju?m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?plum/
• Rhymes: -u?m

Etymology 1

From Late Middle English plum, plume (“feather; plumage”), from Anglo-Norman plum, plume and Middle French, Old French plume, plome (“plumage; down used for stuffing pillows, etc.; pen, quill”) (modern French plume (“feather; pen, quill; pen nib; (figurative) writer”)), and directly from its etymon Latin pl?ma (“feather; plumage; down”) (compare Late Latin pl?ma (“pen, quill”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to fly; to flow; to run; to flap with hands; to splash”). The English word is a doublet of pluma.

Noun

plume (plural plumes)

1. (archaic, literary and poetic) A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one used as a decoration.
2. (archaic, literary and poetic) A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet; a hackle.
3. (figuratively) A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward.

   Synonym: feather in one's cap
4. The vane (“flattened, web-like part”) of a feather, especially when on a quill pen or the fletching of an arrow.
5. Short for plume moth (“a small, slender moth of the family Pterophoridae”).
6. Things resembling a feather.
   1. A cloud formed by a dispersed substance fanning out or spreading.

   2. An upward spray of mist or water.
   3. (astronomy) An arc of glowing material (chiefly gases) erupting from the surface of a star.
   4. (botany) A large and flexible panicle of an inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.
   5. (geology) Short for mantle plume (“an upwelling of abnormally hot molten material from the Earth's mantle which spreads sideways when it reaches the lithosphere”).
   6. (zoology) A body part resembling a feather.
      1. The furry tail of certain dog breeds (such as the Samoyed) that curls over their backs or stands erect.
      2. More fully gill plume: a feathery gill of some crustaceans and molluscs.

Derived terms

Related terms

• plumage
• plumaged

Translations

Etymology 2

Sense 1 (“to adorn, cover, or furnish with feathers or plumes”) is derived from Anglo-Norman plumer (“to cover with or provide with feathers”), or its etymon Latin pl?m?re, the present active infinitive of pl?m? (“to grow feathers, to fledge; to cover with feathers, to feather; to embroider with a feathery pattern”) (and compare Late Latin pl?m? (“to attach feathers to arrows; of a hawk: to pluck the feathers from prey; (figurative) to celebrate, praise”)), from pl?ma (“feather; plumage; down”) (see etymology 1) + -? (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).

Senses 2–4 (“to arrange and preen the feathers of; to congratulate (oneself) proudly; to strip of feathers”) are from Late Middle English plumen (“to remove the feathers from a bird; of a hawk: to pluck the feathers or the head from prey”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman and Middle French plumer (“to remove the feathers from a bird; to pull out (hairs, especially from a moustache); to rob”), from pl?ma (see etymology 1).

Sense 5 (“to fan out or spread in a cloud”) is derived from plume (noun).

Verb

plume (third-person singular simple present plumes, present participle pluming, simple past and past participle plumed)

1. (transitive, also figuratively) To adorn, cover, or furnish with feathers or plumes, or as if with feathers or plumes.

   Synonyms: feather, fledge

2. (transitive, reflexive) Chiefly of a bird: to arrange and preen the feathers of, specifically in preparation for flight; hence (figuratively), to prepare for (something).
3. (transitive, reflexive, by extension) To congratulate (oneself) proudly, especially concerning something unimportant or when taking credit for another person's effort; to self-congratulate.

   • pride and plume himself in his Deformities
4. (transitive, archaic) To strip (a bird) of feathers; to pluck.

   Synonym: unplume

   • the king cared not to plume his nobility

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

   1. (by extension) To peel, to strip completely; to pillage; also, to deprive of power.
   2. (falconry, obsolete) Of a hawk: to pluck the feathers from prey.
5. (intransitive) Of a dispersed substance such as dust or smoke: to fan out or spread in a cloud.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• plumed (adjective)
• unplume
• unplumed (adjective)

Translations

References

Further reading

• mantle plume on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• plume (feather) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• plume (fluid dynamics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Old French plume, from Latin pl?ma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plym/

Noun

plume f (plural plumes)

1. feather
2. quill
3. nib, the writing end of a fountain pen or a dip pen
4. (dated) writer, penman

Derived terms

Descendants

• English: plume
• Rade: plim

Verb

plume

1. inflection of plumer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative
   2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• plume on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• “plume” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin pl?ma.

Noun

plume f (plural plumis)

1. plume, feather

   Synonym: pene

Old English

Alternative forms

• pl?me

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *pl?m?, from Latin pr?num.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?plu?.me/

Noun

pl?me f

1. plum

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Middle English: plomme, ploume, plum, plumbe, plumme, plowme, ploumme, plome
  • English: plum (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: ploom, ploum
• ? Irish: pluma

Old French

Etymology

From Latin pl?ma.

Noun

plume f (oblique plural plumes, nominative singular plume, nominative plural plumes)

1. feather; plume

Descendants