Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of kidney-bean or French bean.
- noun A thread.
- noun A flaw in cloth.
- To ravel out.
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- noun Obsolete form of
phasel .
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To become worn away along the edges., to unravel (from Middle English facelyn, to fray, from fasel, frayed edge, probably diminutive of fas, rootlets, from Old English fæs).]
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