needle file (nedlfil)

row file used by jewelers. E. H. Knight. needle-fish (ne'dl-fish), n. 1. One of several different garfishes or bill-fishes; any belonid: so called from the sharp, slender snout. See Belonida and gar1.-2. A pipe-fish, Syngnathus Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 752. a power of fore-signifying danger. (b) A thin rod, usually made of copper, which is inserted Same as After which he obserued a little Needle, supposed to haue acus, or other species of the genus or family Purchas, Pilgrimage, Syngnathida. See Syngnathus.-3. The agonoid fish Aspidophoroides monopterygius.-4. When rod is withdrawn, it leaves in be inserted the tube of rush or gra , or the fuse, by which the charge is ignited. Also called a blasting - needle, or a nail. (c) In weaving, a horizontal piece of wire with an eye to receive the lifting-wire in a Jacquard loom. E. Η. Knight. (d) A sharp pinnacle of rock; a detached pointed rock. (e) In chem, and mineral., a crystal shaped like a needle; an aciform crystal. (f) In zool., a slender, sharp spicule; an aciculum. (9) In bot., a needle-shaped leaf, as of a conifer: as, a pine-needle. (h) In a central-fire hammerle gun of the variety called needle - gun, a pointed, slender, longitudinally sliding bolt or wire which, being driven forcibly forward by the spring-mechanism of the lock when the gun is fired, strikes with its front end against a fulminate or fulminating compound attached to the interior of the cartridge. The famous Pru ian needle-gun is believed to be the first gun constructed to be fired on this principle. See cut under needle - gun. hello hace which can needle-forceps (ne'dl-fôr seps), n. A forceps 4. In arch., a piece of timber laid horizontally and supported on props or shores under a wall or building, etc., which it serves to sustain temporarily while the foundation or the part beneath is being altered, repaired, or underpinned. -5. A beam carrying a pulley at the end projecting from a building. The fall is worked by a crab inside the building. - Adam's needle and thread. See Adam. - Cannulated needle. See cannu late.- Declination, declension, or variation of the needle. See declination. - Dip or inclination of the needle. See dip. - Magnetic needle. See magnetic. Mariners' needle, the magnetic needle; the mariners' compa .-Needle chervil. See chervil. - Needle furze. See furze. To hit the needle, in archery, to strike the center of the mark: often used metaphorically. for holding needles in suturing. Needle-forceps.