Any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts.
1Maybe I'll give Whinney a good combing with the dry teasel later.
2Dipsacus pilosus, small teasel, -in the Short and Long Lith.
3Then there was the tall patches of browning cutleaf teasel, cutting edges in the sky.
4We walked slowly so that I could keep an eye out for late-blooming eglantine and teasel heads, chatting casually.
6She decided to spend some time with the horses and groom them with teasel brushes, which usually comforted them and relaxed her.
7The dried flower umbel and brittle feathery leaves of the plant still clung to a stalk that had been growing near the teasel.
8She brought grain to Whinney, and spent a few moments currying her with a teasel and scratching the little colt with it as well.
9Then she led her to Racer and showed the girl how to hold the teasel to curry the shaggy winter coat of the young horse.
10Ayla hugged and stroked and scratched them all, then found a dried teasel to use as a currying brush and started to clean Whinney's coat.
11Ayla spent time in the afternoon rubbing down and currying Whinney with a soft piece of leather and the dried spiny head of a teasel.
12Those who have lived where teasels grow will understand this illustration.
13Tall, stately teasels stand like sentinels along the way, and the balsamic tarweed spreads its fragrance along the outer edge.
14At that time every man, except two, John Platt and Ralph Teasel, two of the men who were saved, were washed off.
15"You mean this teasel?" Latie asked, picking up a stiff stem with a rounded spiny dried top.
16"Count," he said, laughing, "it seems that the Princess gathers lovers as a woolen coat does teasels.