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n. A bunch of loose threads or cords bound at one end and hanging free at the other, used as an ornament on curtains or clothing, for example.

n. Something that resembles such an ornament, especially the pollen-bearing inflorescence of a corn plant.

v. To fringe or decorate with tassels.

verb-intransitive. To put forth a tassellike inflorescence. Used especially of corn.

n. A ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads from which at one end protrudes a cord on which the tassel is hung, and which may have loose, dangling threads at the other end. Tassels are normally decorative elements, and as such one often finds them attached, usually along the bottom hem, to garments, curtains or other hangings.

n. The male inflorescence of maize, which consists of loose threads with anthers on them.

n. The loose hairs at the end of a braid.

v. to adorn with tassels

n. A male hawk. See tercel.

n. A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.

n. A pendent ornament, attached to the corners of cushions, to curtains, and the like, ending in a tuft of loose threads or cords.

n. The flower or head of some plants, esp. when pendent.

n. A narrow silk ribbon, or the like, sewed to a book to be put between the leaves.

n. 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.

verb-intransitive. To put forth a tassel or flower.

v. To adorn with tassels.

n. A pendent ornament, consisting generally of a roundish mold covered with twisted threads of silk, wool, etc., which hang down in a thick fringe.

n. Anything resembling a tassel, as the pendent head or flower of some plants; specifically, the staminate inflorescence at the summit of the stalk of Indian corn (maize); also, locally, the bunch of so-called “silk” protruding from the top of an ear of maize.

n. In heraldry, a bearing representing a tassel, usually or.

n. Eccles., a small plate of beaten gold or silver, sometimes jeweled, sewed on the back of a bishop's glove.

n. A small ribbon of silk sewed to a book, to be put between the leaves.

To attach a tassel or tassels to; decorate with tassels of any kind.

To remove the tassel from (growing Indian corn), for the purpose of improving the crop. First Annual Report of Kansas Experiment Station.

To put forth a tassel: said of trees or plants, especially of maize.

n. An obsolete form of teazel.

n. Same as tussle.

n. Same as tercel.

n. In architecture, same as torsel.

n. adornment consisting of a bunch of cords fastened at one end

"(For those of you who don't know me, I actually have a nice chapeau [ "hat" in French] with a tassel from the University of Michigan School of Social Work where I trained to be a therapist in grad school.)"

tasselled    tasselling    tassels   

tassel pondweed    tassel-fringe    festoon-and-tassel border    chain tassel   

sword knot   

tasselled    tasselling    tercel   

tasseled    tasselled    tasseling    tasselling   

teasel    pendant   

Basle    Brasil    Cassel    Castle    Kassel    castle    facile    gracile    hassel    hassell   

streamer    sash    scarf    fringe    stocking    ribbon    embroidery    braid    turban    trimming