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a strap, and worn the palm of the hand, -- used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc.

A proteidlike body found in the fluid from ovarian cysts and elsewhere. It is generally associated with a substance related to, if not identical with, glycogen.

Lace, gimp, braid etc., sewed on a garment. Sir W. Scott.

A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a hole. Patches set upon a little breach. Shak.

Work composed of pieces sewed together, esp. pieces of various colors and figures; hence, anything put together of incongruous or ill-adapted parts; something irregularly clumsily composed; a thing putched up. Swift.

A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin. [Prov. Eng.]

all loops on the side of some kinds of ribbon; also, a narrow kind of thread edging to be sewed on lace. -- Pearl eye, cataract. [R.] -- Pearl gray, a very pale and delicate blue-gray color. -- Pearl millet, Egyptian millet (Penicillaria spicata). -- Pearl moss. See Carrageen. -- Pearl moth (Zoöl.), any moth of the…

h up. Here in the body pent. J. Montgomery. No pent-up Utica contracts your powers. J. M. Sewall.

talked crinoids, of which several species occur in deep water among the West Indies and elsewhere.

The operation of sewing up a ruptured perineum.

ng. -- Plain molding (Join.), molding of which the surfaces are plain figures. -- Plain sewing, sewing of seams by simple and common stitches, in distinct from fancy work, embroidery, etc.; -- distinguished also from designing and fitting garments. -- Plain song. (a) The Gregorian chant, or canto fermo; the prescrib…

Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.

To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.[Obs.] "To sew and plight." Chaucer. A plighted garment of divers colors. Milton.

specially, the business of furnishing, fitting, and repairing pipes for conducting water, sewage, etc. Gwilt.

A form of micrococcus found in the sputum (and elsewhere) of persons suffering with pneumonia, and thought to be the cause of this disease.

A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.

Jonson, Gray, Tennyson, Browning, and other English poets, and memorials to many buried elsewhere.

Praiseworthy. [Obs.]

eedles to enable the loops of the yarn to pass over them. -- Presser foot, the part of a sewing machine which rests on the cloth and presses it down upon the table of the machine.