01 n. A tassel.
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A tassel.[Obs.]
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A slip of silk, paper, parchment, etc., affixed to anything, and indicating, usually by an inscription, the contents, ownership, destination, etc.; as, the label of a bottle or a package.
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A slip of ribbon, parchment, etc., attached to a document to hold the appended seal; also, the seal.
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A writing annexed by way of addition, as a codicil added to a will.
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A barrulet, or, rarely, a bendlet, with pendants, or points, usually three, especially used as a mark of cadency to distinguish an eldest or only son while his father is still living.(Her.)
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A brass rule with sights, formerly used, in connection with a circumferentor, to take altitudes.
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The name now generally given to the projecting molding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediæval architecture. It always has a square form, as in the illustration.(Gothic Arch.)
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In mediæval art, the representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription.