thread moss (thredmos)

A mo of the genus Bryum: so called from the slender seta which bears the capsule. thread-needle, thread-the-needle (thred'ne". dl, thred' THe-ne"dl), n. [ 10t. Distinguishing property; quality; degree of finene . A neat courtier, Of a most elegant thread. B. Jonson, Magnet ick Lady, i. 1. 11. The thread of life. See phrase below. Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief Shore his old thread in twain. Shak., Othello, v. 2. 206. He sees at one view the whole thread of my existence. Add is on, Spectator, No. 7. Adam's needle and thread. See Adam.-Gold thread. (a) A string formed by covering a thread, usually of yellow silk, with thin gold wire wound spirally around it. See wire. (b) A thin strip of gilded paper often used in Oriental brocaded stuffs. (c) Erroneously, gold wire. (d) See goldthread. - Lisle thread, a fine hard-twisted linen thread, originally made at Lille (Lisle), in France, but now also made in Great Britain. It is used especially in the manufacture of stockings, gloves, etc. - The thread of life, the imaginary thread spun and cut by the Fates: emblematic of the course and termination of one's existence. See def. 11. Thread and needle. Same as thread-needle. Thread and thrum, figuratively, all; the good and the bad together. IMG:content-0315.png:[blocks in formation] tle bodies or cavities of a cœlenterate, as a jellyfish or sea-nettle, containing a coiled elastic thread that springs out with stinging effect when the creature is irritated; an urticating organ; a nematocyst; a la o-cell; a enida. Thread-cells are highly characteristic of the cœlenterates, and some similar or analogous organs are found in certain infusorians. See cuts under cnida and nematocyst, and compare trichocyst. 2. An occasional name of a seed-animalcule or spermatozoön. Haeckel. 1. A small thread-cutter (thred'kuter), п. blade fixed to a sewing-machine, to a spool holder, or to a thimble, etc., as a convenience for cutting sewing-threads.-2. A thread-cutting machine for bolts; a screw-thread cutter. See cut under screw- stock. E. H. Knight. threaded (thred'ed), p. a. Provided with a thread. From the bastion'd walls, Like threaded spiders, one by one we dropt. Tennyson, Prince , i. thread ent (thred'n), a. [Early mod. E. also thredden, thread den; thread + -en2 .] Woven of threads; textile. Also thridden . I went on shoare my selfe, and gaue euery of them a thread den point, and brought one of them aboord of me. Hakluyt's Voyages, III. 31. Behold the threaden sails, Borne with the invisible and creeping wind. Shak., Hen. V., iii., Prol., 1. 10. threader (thred'èr), n. [ thread +-er1.] One who or that which threads; specifically, a contrivance for threading needles. See needle threader .