Thread

thred, n. a very thin line of any substance twisted and drawn out: a filament of any fibrous substance: a fine line of yarn: anything resembling a thread: the prominent spiral part of a screw: something continued in long course: the uniform tenor of a discourse.— v.t. to pa a thread through the eye of (as a needle): to pa or pierce through, as a narrow way: to furnish with a thread.— adj. Thread′bare , worn to the bare thread: having the nap worn off: hackneyed: used till its novelty or interest is gone.— n. Thread′barene .— adj. Thread′en ( Shak. ), made of thread.— ns. Thread′er ; Thread′ine , the state of being thread-like or slender: the quality of containing threads; Thread′-lace , lace made of linen thread; Thread′-pā′per , a piece of thin soft paper for wrapping up a skein of thread.— n.pl. Thread′-worms , a popular name for Nematoda, a cla of more or le thread-like worms, many parasitic, others free-living.— adj. Thread′y , like thread: slender: containing, or consisting of, thread.— Thread and thrum , all, the good and bad together; Thread of life , the thread imagined to be spun and cut by the Fates.— Lisle thread , a fine hard-twisted linen thread originally made at Lille in France. [A.S. thrǽd — thráwan , to wind, to twist; Ger. drehen .]