tonsile

From Latin tonsilis, from tondere, tonsum (“to shear, clip”). See tonsure.

• Rhymes: -ɒnsəl

tonsile (comparative more tonsile, superlative most tonsile)

1. Capable of being clipped.

• “tonsile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Isleton, Leiston, entisol, entoils, lionets, onliest