A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.
A tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.
A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that in an ideal image would appear as points.
The contraction of a word by means of loss or omission of sounds or syllables in the middle thereof.
The quality of a rhythm being somehow unexpected, in that it deviates from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak beats in a meter.