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Tassel

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Noun, Verb (usu participle)
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tas=sel

CIDE DICTIONARY

Tasseln. 
     A male hawk. See Tercel.  [1913 Webster]
Tasseln. [See Teasel.].
     A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.  [1913 Webster]
Tasseln. [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.].
  •  A pendent ornament, attached to the corners of cushions, to curtains, and the like, ending in a tuft of loose threads or cords.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The flower or head of some plants, esp. when pendent.  [1913 Webster]
    "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.
    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  A narrow silk ribbon, or the like, sewed to a book to be put between the leaves.  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
Tassel flower (Bot.), a name of several composite plants of the genus Cineraria, especially the Cineraria sconchifolia, and of the blossoms which they bear.
Tasselv. i. 
     To put forth a tassel or flower; as, maize tassels.  [1913 Webster]
Tasselv. t. 
     To adorn with tassels.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Tassel, n. & v.
--n.
1 a tuft of loosely hanging threads or cords etc. attached for decoration to a cushion, scarf, cap, etc.
2 a tassel-like head of some plants, esp. a flower-head with prominent stamens at the top of a maize stalk.
--v. (tasselled, tasselling; US tasseled, tasseling)
1 tr. provide with a tassel or tassels.
2 intr. US (of maize etc.) form tassels.

Tassel, n. (also torsel) a small piece of stone, wood, etc., supporting the end of a beam or joist.

Etymology
OF ult. f. L taxillus small die, and tessella: see TESSELLATE

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