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 Tea·sel n.  [Written also tassel, tazel, teasle, teazel, and teazle.]
 1. 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.
 Note: ☞ Small teasel is Dipsacus pilosus, wild teasel is Dipsacus sylvestris.
 2. A bur of this plant.
 3. Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.
 Teasel frame, a frame or set of iron bars in which teasel heads are fixed for raising the nap on woolen cloth.

 Full·er n.  One whose occupation is to full cloth.
 Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease.
 Fuller's herb Bot., the soapwort (Saponaria officinalis), formerly used to remove stains from cloth.
 Fuller's thistle or Fuller's weed Bot., the teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) whose burs are used by fullers in dressing cloth. See Teasel.

 Dipsacus fullonum
      n : teasel with lilac flowers native to Old World but
          naturalized in North America; dried flower heads used to
          raise a nap on woolen cloth [syn: common teasel]