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sort of stitch formed by the locking of two threads together, as in the work done by some sewing machines. See Stitch.

cle as in manufacturing. -- Machine twist, silken thread especially adapted for use in a sewing machine. -- Machine work, work done by a machine, in contradistinction to that done by hand labor.

An attachment to a sewing machine for marking a line on the fabric by creasing it.

nything as adapted to produce an effect; as, the mechanism of a watch; the mechanism of a sewing machine; the mechanism of a seed pod.

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

Work executed with a needle; sewed work; sewing; embroidery; also, the business of a seamstress.

Over and over; -- applied to a style of sewing, or to a seam, in which two edges, usually selvedges, are sewed together by passing each stitch over both.

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

To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.

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…

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.

A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc. Race cloth, a cloth worn by horses in racing, having pockets to hold the weights prescribed. -- Race course. (a) The path, generally circular or elliptical, over which a race is run. (b) Same as Race way, below. -- R…

That which ruffles; specifically, a sewing machine attachment for making ruffles.

The fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather.

A woman whose occupation is sewing; a needlewoman.

To close or stop by ssewing; -- often with up; as, to sew up a rip.

A sewing needle having a very slender point; a needle of the most pointed of the three grades, blunts, betweens, and sharps.

The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.

A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.