<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>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.</li><li>something resembling this, as the inflorescence of certain plants, especially that at the summit of a stalk of corn.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to furnish or adorn with tassels.</li><li>to form into a tassel or tassels.</li><li>to remove the tassel from (growing corn) in order to improve the crop.</li><li>(used without object) (of corn) to put forth tassels (often followed by out).</li></ul>