tassel: Meaning and Definition of

tas•sel

1. a pendent ornament consisting commonly of a bunch of threads, small cords, or other strands hanging from a roundish knob or head, used on clothing, in jewelry, on curtains, etc.
2. something resembling this, as the inflorescence of certain plants, esp. that at the summit of a stalk of corn.

1. to furnish or adorn with tassels.
2. to form into a tassel or tassels.
3. to remove the tassel from (growing corn) in order to improve the crop.

1. (of corn) to put forth tassels (often fol. by out).