fasel
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fasel¹
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From Middle English faselen (“to fray”), from fasel (“frayed”, adjective) and fasel (“a frayed edge or border, fringe”, noun), probably a diminutive of Middle English fas (“fringe”), from Old English fæs (“fringe”). Compare Dutch vezel (“fibre, filament”), German faseln (“to ravel out, ramble”). Doublet of pizzle.
verb fasels · faselling · faselled · fasyll · fazle
- To unravel or become frayed. My sleve is fasylled: ma manche est rauelée.
- To become confused or ravelled. […] which hath fazled and entangled this Controverſie.
fasel²
noun fasels
- Obsolete form of phasel Tares and fasels, having been previously macerated in water so as to shoot out roots, are laxative of the bowels when taken before a meal with sauce; and are more nutritious than the fenugreek.
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title = {fasel},
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