2. A plume or tuft for the head composed of feathers, or of gems, etc. Prescott.

3. A tuft like that of the egret. (Bot.) A feathery crown of seed; egret; as, the aigrette or down of the dandelion or the thistle.

||Ai`guille" (&?;), n. [F., a needle. See Aglet.] 1. A needle-shaped peak.