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To open by picking out stitches; to take out, or undo, the stitches of; as, to unstitch a seam. Collier.

Anything hastily put or stitched together; hence, a hasty composition. [R.] Dryden.

To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly. Shak.

A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.

A printed and stitched book containing only a few leaves; a pamphlet.

ed in naval warfare on account of their destructive effect on a ship's rigging. -- Chain stitch. See in the Vocabulary. -- Chain timber. (Arch.) See Bond timber, under Bond. -- Chain wales. (Naut.) Same as Channels. -- Chain wheel. See in the Vocabulary. -- Closed chain, Open chain (Chem.), terms applied to the ch…

Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitch work.

A coverlet for a bed, -- originally stitched or woven in squares or figures. On which a tissue counterpane was cast. Drayton.

A coverlet; a cover for a bed, often stitched or broken into squares; a counterpane. See 1st Counterpane. Embroidered coverlets or counterpoints of purple silk. Sir T. North.

made of pieces of silk or other material of various sizes, shapes, and colors, fancifully stitched together without definite plan or arrangement.

To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread. He spent every day ten hours in his closet, in darning his stockins. Swift. Darning last. See under Last. -- Darning needle. (a) A long, strong needle for mending holes or rents, especially…

el instrument with which lines are drawn in the ground or varnish in etching. -- Etching stitch (Needlework), a stitch used outline embroidery.

A form of seam joining two pieces of cloth, the edges being folded together and the stitches taken through both thicknesses.

One whose trade it is to make or sell gloves. Glover's suture or stitch, a kind of stitch used in sewing up wounds, in which the thread is drawn alternately through each side from within outward.

The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.

ment to a sewing machine, for turning under the edge of a piece of fabric, preparatory to stitching it down.

of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions. Herringbone stitch, a kind of cross-stitch in needlework, chiefly used in flannel. Simmonds.

cal writer, born in Cos, about 460 B. C. Hippocrates' sleeve, a conical strainer, made by stitching together two adjacent sides of a square piece of cloth, esp. flannel of linen.

iling water or other liguids. Kettle pins, ninepins; skittles. [Obs.] Shelton. -- Kettle stitch (Bookbinding), the stitch made in sewing at the head and tail of a book. Knight.

eam made at the junction of two breadths of canvas, ordinarily joined by only two rows of stitches.