Sleeve: alternatives and connections

A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe…

A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catho…

An alkaloid obtained, as a bitter, yellow substance, from the root of the barberry, gold thread, and other plants.

A kind of linen cloth made in Normandy, the thread of which is partly blanches before it is woven.

A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a se…

A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cu…

A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.

To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.

A knot or lump in thread or cloth.

Hollow; affording a passage through its interior length for wire, thread, etc.; as, a cannulated (suture) needle.

A stitch in which the looping of the thread or threads forms a chain on the under side of the work; the loop stitch, as distinguished…

To cut, so as to make a screw thread.

A turkish fabric of silk and cotton, with gold thread interwoven.

A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself.

To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread.

either extremity of something that has length; "the end of the pier"; "she knotted the end of the thread"; "they rode to the end of th…

The formation of an involute by unwrapping a thread from a curve as an evolute.

An end of poorer quality, or in a spoiled condition, as the coarser end of a web of cloth, the untwisted end of a rope, ect.