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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus, native to the Old World, having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts.
  2. n. The bristly flower head of D. sativus, used to produce a napped surface on wool and other fabrics.
  3. n. A wire device used to produce a napped surface.
  4. v. To produce a napped surface on (a fabric).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. See teazel.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus.
  2. n. The dried flower head of the fuller's teasel, Dipsacus fullonum, used for teasing or carding cloth.
  3. v. To raise the nap on cloth; to tease; to card.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species (Dipsacus 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.
  2. n. A bur of this plant.
  3. n. Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.
  4. v. To subject, as woolen cloth, to the action of teasels, or any substitute for them which has an effect to raise a nap.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English tesel, tasil, tasel, tosel, from Old English tǣsel, tǣsl ("to tease"), from Proto-Germanic *taisilō, *taislō (“thistle”), from Proto-Indo-European *dāy- (“to separate, divide”). Cognate with Scots tasil, tassill ("teasel"), German Zeisel ("thistle, teasel"). Related to tease. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English tesel, from Old English tǣsel. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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