Teasel frame, a frame or set of iron bars in which teasel heads are fixed for raising the nap on woolen cloth.
But none of these processes have succeeded in discarding the naturalteasel from the most eminent manufactories.
There are several classes of teasel (cardas) in Paraguai.
We conclude this chapter with a description of the common Teasel (Dipsacus sylvestris) of the order Dipsaceae.
The flowers of the Teasel are collected in large heads, covered with straight, stiff bristles, and have an involucre of bracts which curve upwards.
This quality is the alternate position of [644] the leaves, which has been replaced in the teaselfamily by a grouping in pairs.
This good fortune however, I did have with the wild teasel or Dipsacus sylvestris.
The twisted teasels lose their decussation, but in doing so the leaves are not left in a disorderly dispersion, but a distinct new arrangement takes its place, which is to be assumed as the normal one for the ancestors of the teasel family.
Before doing so, it may be as well to state that the case of the teasel is not an isolated one, and that the same conclusions are supported by the valerian, and a large number of other examples.
In other respects they exactly imitate theteasel cups showing thereby how these cups may probably have originated.
On the normal stem of a teasel the two members of a pair are tied to one another in a comparatively complicated way.
But it is quite other with the little insects that infest the teasel head, and which are eaten to cure intermittent fevers, or enclosed in a goose quill, sealed up and worn round the neck as a preservative against ague.
A workman who suffered greatly from abscesses cured himself entirely by the use of the roots of the teasel which he asked the writer of this book to be allowed to dig up in his orchard.
In fact, 'the seal of the Port-reeve bears a church between a teaseland a saltire, with the sun and moon above.
The teasel was used to raise the nap in making cloth, and was a symbol of that industry, as the sun and moon were symbols of mining.
But by first maturing its anthers, then when they have shed their pollen, elevating its stigmas, the teasel prevents self-fertilization.
Bristling with armor, the teaselis not often attacked by browsing cattle.
Manufacturers find that no invention can equal the natural teasel head for raising a nap on woolen cloth, because it breaks at any serious obstruction, whereas a metal substitute, in such a case, tears the material.
The teasel was once extensively cultivated as a fuller's plant, and one or two species of it have become common as wild plants, their dense and prickly flowering spikes looking like swabs for cleaning lamp chimneys.
The so-called "travelers' tree" of the tropics is a teaselupon a larger scale.
Bleak and cold The fields looked, where the footpath wound Through teasel and bur-marigold.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "teasel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
