HOSIERY

stockings (see Hosr) and garments similarly manufactured by knitting. Unlike weaving, knitting is supposed to have been a late mediaeval, probably Scot., invention. Shawls, when made by hand, are knitted with two long bone needles, stockings and other round seamle things with four steel needles; one needle suffices for crochet. The stocking-frame was in=- vented in 1589 by Lee, and completed by the addition of Jedediah Strutt’s invention for rib-stitch in 1758. The warp loom was first introduced in 1775. Matthew Town send introduced the latch needle in 1858. Circular and flat frames by which seamle h. is obtained have been invented by Fr., Ger., Belg., Eng., and Amer. manufacturers. authoritative member of Council of Nicaea, 325. Polish cardinal, who suppre ed Reformation in Poland.