tusser (tuser)

[Also tu ur, tu ore, tu eh, tu ah, tu a, tasar; prob. at first in comp. tu er silk, lit. 'shuttle-silk,' perhaps from the form of the cocoon (Yule), litta, furnishing a silk of great strength, but of coarse quality and hard to reel. tu er-silk (tus'er-silk), n. IMG:content-1127.png:[blocks in formation] native substitute for esparto. Though it is of taller growth in wet ground, the best quality is from dry lands. Also called mat- rush. Spons ' Encyc. Manuf. 3. A tufted gra , Aira cæspitosa. Britten and Holland. [Prov. Eng.]