† pulviplumen.
Ornithology. Obsolete. rare.
A powder-down feather.
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1890 E. Coues Handbk. Field & Gen. Ornithol. 129 Such plumulæ, from being always dusted over with dry scurfy exfoliation, are called powder-down... I call them pulviplumes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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n.1890- to bring to the party
- to bring to the pot
- to bring to the proof
- to bring to the scratch
- to bring to the stretch
- to bring to the table
- to bring to trial
- to bring to wrack
- to bring to wrack and ruin
- to bring to, keep on the stage
- to bring to, on, or upon bier
- to bring to, on, or upon one's bier
- to bring under
- to bring under coram
- to bring unto, to fall into, to go, put, or work to wrake
- to bring up
- to bring up all standing
- to bring up an animal on the finger
- to bring up arrears
- to bring up lost ground
- to bring up on the finger
- to bring up the rear
- to bring up the rear arrear
- to bring up to the bullring
- to bring up with a round turn