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

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.

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

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.

See Tiercel. Called also tarsel, tassel. Chaucer.

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n of quality, especially in the English universities; -- so called from the tuft, or gold tassel, on the cap worn by them. [Cant, Eng.] Several young tufts, and others of the faster men. T. Hughes.

The tassels of twisted cords or threads on the corners of the upper garment worn by strict Jews. The Hebrew for this word is translated in both the Authorized and Revised Versions (Deut. xxii. 12) by the word "fringes."