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A rich kind of lace made at Valenciennes, in France. Each piece is made throughout, ground and pattern, by the same person and with the same thread, the pattern being worked in the net.
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imp. & p. p.
of Thread
n.
A device for assisting in threading a needle.
n.
A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back.
a.
Containing, or consisting of, thread.
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Made of thread; as, threaden sails; a threaden fillet.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Thread
v. t.
To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut.
v. t.
To wind off; to loose or separate, as what or convolved; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread; to unwind a ball of yarn.
a.
Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes.
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Having fibrovascular threads extending throughout the lamina; as, a veined leaf.
n.
Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse.
n.
A carangoid fish (Caranx gallus, or C. crinitus) having the anterior rays of the soft dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the form of long threads.
n.
The state of being threadbare.
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Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub.
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Having the form of a thread; filiform.
n.
A tool or machine for forming a thread on a screw or in a nut.
v. t.
To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle.
n.
Quality of being thready.
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Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations.
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