thread paper

Thin strips of paper for wrapping up skeins of thread. thread-plants, s. pl. Comm.: Plants whose fibers may be manufactured into thread, as flax, cotton, . thread-waxer, s . A bowl of heated shoemaker's wax, through which the thread is conducted in sewing-machines for boots, shoes, and leather. thread, v . t . [THREAD, 8.] 1. Lit .: To pa a thread through the eye or aperture of. "The largest crooked needle, with a ligature of the size of that I have threaded it with, in taking up the sperm at ick ve els."- Sharp: Surgery. 2. Fig .: To pa or pierce through, as through something narrow, interwoven, or intricate. "A serf that rose betimes to thread the wood, And hew the bough that bought his children's food." Byron: Lara , ii. 24. thread-bäre, *thred-bare, *thrid-bare, adj. [Eng. thread, s., and bare.] 1. Lit .: Worn so that the component threads can be traced; worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off. "A poor needy fellow in a threadbare cloak."-Camden: Hist. Queen Elizabeth (an. 1515). 2. Fig .: Worn out; trite, hackneyed; used so long that the novelty has worn off. "Many writers of moral discourses run into stale topics and threadbare quotations, not handling their subjects fully and closely?"- Swift . threat thread-bäre-ne , s. [Eng. threadbare; -ne .) The quality or state of being threadbare; tritene ; poverty. "There was much significance in his look with regard to the coat; it spoke of the sleekne of folly and the threadbarene of of wisdom." Mackenzie : Man of Feeling, ch. xxi. *thread-en, *thread-den, a. [English thread ; -en.] Made of thread. "Some in her threaden fillet still did bide, And true to bondage would not break from thence." Shakesp.: Complaint of a Lover , 33. thread-ēr, s. [Eng. thread , v.: -er .] One who or that which threads; spec if., a device for guiding the thread into the eye of a needle. †thread-1-ne , s. [Eng. thready; -ne .] The state of being thread-like, or drawn out into threads. ( Good rich .) thread-like, adj. [Eng. thread, and like.] Resembling a thread; long and fine.