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A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet.

w and ripened, Till it stood in all the splendor Of its garments green and yellow, Of its tassels and its plumage. Longfellow.

A defense for the front of the thigh, consisting of one or more iron plates hanging from the belt on the lower edge of the corselet.

A small cup for, or of, black coffee.

ed over; strewed. His face besprent with liquid crystal shines. Shenstone. The floor with tassels of fir was besprent. Longfellow.

A twisted cord; a tassel. Halliwell.

Doubled and twisted thread, made of coarse silk, and used for tassels, fringes, etc. McElrath.

ether; -- also, used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece.

A felt or cloth cap, usually red and having a tassel, -- a variety of the tarboosh. See Tarboosh. B. Taylor.

or Hessians, boot of a kind worn in England, in the early part of the nineteenth century, tasseled in front. Thackeray. -- Hessian cloth, or Hessians, a coarse hempen cloth for sacking. -- Hessian crucible. See under Crucible. -- Hessian fly (Zoöl.), a small dipterous fly or midge (Cecidomyia destructor). Its larvæ…

A tassel. [Obs.] Huloet. Fuller.

A breviary; a prayer book. [Written variously portace, portasse, portesse, portise, porthose, portos, portus, portuse, etc.] [Obs.] Spenser. Camden. By God and by this porthors I you swear. Chaucer.

A showy leguminous plant (Calliandra purpurea) of the West Indies. The flowers have long tassels of purple stamens.

See Tasse. Fairholt.

overing the chest and the upper part of the back. It has an opening for the head, and has tassels, called zizith, on its four corners.

a round, flattish top much wider than the band which fits the head, and usually having a tassel in the center.

To tassel. [Obs.] "A purse of leather tassed with silk." Chaucer.

A piece of armor formerly worn to guard the things; a tasse.

See Tiercel. Called also tarsel, tassel. Chaucer.

See Tassel.