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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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a.
Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub.
imp. & p. p.
of Thread
n.
Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse.
v. t.
To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut.
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.
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The state of being threadbare.
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Made of thread; as, threaden sails; a threaden fillet.
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Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes.
n.
Quality of being thready.
n.
A device for assisting in threading a needle.
n.
A tool or machine for forming a thread on a screw or in a nut.
a.
Having fibrovascular threads extending throughout the lamina; as, a veined leaf.
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.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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a.
Containing, or consisting of, thread.
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.
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Having the form of a thread; filiform.
v. t.
To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle.
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Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations.
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