Fluff: alternatives and connections

A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and (commonly) a broad-brimmed hat.

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To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.

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A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.

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To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.

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An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.

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To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement;…

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To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…

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To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a…

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Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

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To carry, or go, wrong; to fail of reaching a destination, or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat.

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Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

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A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.

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The quality or state of being trivial; trivialness.

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Pertaining to, or resembling, fluff or nap; soft and downy.

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Pertaining to, or resembling, fluff or nap; soft and downy.

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of Tease

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of Tease

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A trifle; a thing of no importance.

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To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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A botch; a patch.

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A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.

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The bittern.

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To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.

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Coast-off clothes.

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The condition or quality of being frivolous; also, acts or habits of trifling; unbecoming levity of disposition.

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To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something.

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To handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat.

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A soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold.

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To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

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To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

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To comb or card, as wool or flax.

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