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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Teasel \Tea"sel\, n. [OE. tesel, AS. t[?]sel, t[?]sl, the fuller's herb. See {Tease}.] [Written also {tassel}, {tazel}, {teasle}, {teazel}, and {teazle}.] 1. (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Dipsacus}, of which one species ({D. fullonum}) bears a large flower head covered with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth. Note: Small teasel is {Dipsacus pilosus}, wild teasel is {D. sylvestris}. 2. A bur of this plant. 3. Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth. {Teasel frame}, a frame or set of iron bars in which teasel heads are fixed for raising the nap on woolen cloth. | |
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Tercel \Ter"cel\, n. See {Tiercel}. Called also {tarsel}, {tassel}. --Chaucer. | |
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Tassel \Tas"sel\, n. [OE., a fastening of a mantle, OF. tassel a fastening, clasp, F. tasseau a bracket, Fr. L. taxillus a little die, dim. of talus a die of a longish shape, rounded on two sides and marked only on the other four, a knuckle bone.] 1. A pendent ornament, attached to the corners of cushions, to curtains, and the like, ending in a tuft of loose threads or cords. 2. The flower or head of some plants, esp. when pendent. And the maize field grew and ripened, Till it stood in all the splendor Of its garments green and yellow, Of its tassels and its plumage. --Longfellow. 3. A narrow silk ribbon, or the like, sewed to a book to be put between the leaves. 4. (Arch.) A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers; -- rarely used in the United States. {Tassel flower} (Bot.), a name of several composite plants of the genus {Cineraria}, especially the {C. sconchifolia}, and of the blossoms which they bear. | |
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Tassel \Tas"sel\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tasseled}or {Tasselled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tasseling} or {Tasselling}.] To put forth a tassel or flower; as, maize tassels. | |
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Tassel \Tas"sel\, v. t. To adorn with tassels. --Chaucer. | |
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Tassel \Tas"sel\, n. (Falconry) A male hawk. See {Tercel}. | |
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Tassel \Tas"sel\, n. [See {Teasel}.] A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel. | |
