A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.
An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
A person with peculiar sexual tastes.
To laugh loudly.
To be formed into a kink or twist.
To form a kink or twist.
To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.
The loose hairs at the end of a braid.
A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.
A ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads from which at one end protrudes a cord on which the ball is hung, and which may have loose, dangling threads at the other end (often used as decoration along the bottom of garments, curtains or other hangings).
A thin plate of gold on the back of a bishop's gloves.
A narrow silk ribbon, or similar, sewed to a book to be put between the pages.
The panicle on a male plant of maize, which consists of loose threads with anthers on them.
A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers.
To adorn with tassels.
To put forth a tassel or flower.