Tǽsl

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - tǽsl

According to the Old English Dictionary:

tǽsel, e;

tǽsl
f. Teasel, teazle :-- Ðeós wyrt ðe man camelleon alba, and óþrum naman wulfes tǽsl (tǽsel, MS. B.) (cf. wolf's-thistle, E. D. S. Pub. Plant Names) nemneþ, hafaþ leáf wiþerrǽde and þyrnyhte, and heó hafaþ on middan sumne sinewealtne crop and þyrnyhtne, Lchdm. i. 282, 15. [Wilde tesel virga pastoris, Wrt. Voc. i. 141, 13 (13th cent.). Tasylle carduus, 191, col. 2 (15th cent.). Tasyl carduus vel cardo fullonis, Prompt. ParO. H. Ger. zeisala carduus; wolf(es)-zeisala arnica.] tæsl

Related words: 487. Cloth ... with taseles cracched, Piers P. 15, 446.

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