Word Meanings - NEEDLEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

As much thread as is used in a needle at one time.

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• NEEDLESS
  1. Having no need. Weeping into the needless stream. Shak. 2. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses. 3. Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless. "Needless jealousy." Shak. -- Need"less*ly,
• NEEDLESTONE
  Natrolite; -- called also needle zeolite.
• NEEDLEWOMAN
  A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.
• THREADFISH
  The cutlass fish. A carangoid fish having the anterior rays of the soft dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the form of long threads.
• THREADER
  1. A device for assisting in threading a needle. 2. A tool or machine for forming a thread on a screw or in a nut.
• NEEDLE
  One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus. 5. Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc. Dipping needle. See under Dipping. -- Needle bar, the reciprocating
• THREADFIN
  Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.
• NEEDLER
  One who makes or uses needles; also, a dealer in needles. Piers Plowman.
• THREADBARENESS
  The state of being threadbare.
• NEEDLEBOOK
  A book-shaped needlecase, having leaves of cloth into which the needles are stuck.
• THREAD-SHAPED
  Having the form of a thread; filiform.
• THREADY
  1. Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub. 2. Containing, or consisting of, thread.
• NEEDLEFISH
  The European great pipefich ; -- called also earl, and tanglefish. The garfish.
• THREADWORM
  Any long, slender nematode worm, especially the pinworm and filaria.
• NEEDLEFUL
  As much thread as is used in a needle at one time.
• NEEDLEWORK
  1. Work executed with a needle; sewed work; sewing; embroidery; also, the business of a seamstress. 2. The combination of timber and plaster making the outside framework of some houses.
• THREADINESS
  Quality of being thready.
• THREADBARE
  1. Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes. "A threadbare cope." Chaucer. 2. Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations. Swift.
• THREADEN
  Made of thread; as, threaden sails; a threaden fillet. Shak.
• NEEDLE-POINTED
  Pointed as needles.
• DOUBLETHREADED
  Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads. (more info) 1. Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.
• THREAD
  wire, thread, OHG. drat, Icel. a thread, Sw. tråd, Dan. traad, and 1. A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled,
• TOUCH-NEEDLE
  A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.
• DEVIL'S DARNING-NEEDLE
  A dragon fly. See Darning needle, under Darn, v. t.
• SEA NEEDLE
  See
• UNTHREAD
  1. To draw or take out a thread from; as, to unthread a needle. 2. To deprive of ligaments; to loose the ligaments of. He with his bare wand can unthread thy joints. Milton. 3. To make one's way through; to traverse; as, to unthread a devious path.
• CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE
  Either of two obelisks which were moved in ancient times from Heliopolis to Alexandria, one of which is now on the Thames Embankment in London, and the other in Central Park, in the City of New York. Some writers consider that only the obelisk now