Word Meanings - NEEDLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing.

• Receivership
  The state or office of a receiver.
• Smallage
  A biennial umbelliferous plant (Apium graveolens) native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• Steelyard
  A form of balance in which the body to be weighed is suspended from the shorter arm of a lever, which turns on a fulcrum, and a counterpoise is caused to slide upon the longer arm to produce equilibrium, its place upon this arm (which is notched o
• POINTAPPLIQUE
  Lace having a needle-made design applied to a net ground, this ground often being machine-made.
• Point-blank
  The white spot on a target, at which an arrow or other missile is aimed.
• Smallclothes
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• POINTBLANK
  In a point-blank manner. To sin point-blank against God's word. Fuller.
• Point d'appui
  See under Appui.
• Point-device
  Alt. of Point-devise
• Smallish
  Somewhat small.
• Threaded
  of Thread
• POINTDAPPUI
  See under Appui.
• Instrument
  That by means of which any work is performed, or result is effected; a tool; a utensil; an implement; as, the instruments of a mechanic; astronomical instruments.
• Point-devise
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular.
• Smallness
  The quality or state of being small.
• Threading
  of Thread

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