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as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.

system of differential gearing used in spinning machines for regulating the twist of the yarn. It resembles gearing used in equation clocks for showing apparent time. -- Equation of the center (Astron.), the difference between the place of a planet as supposed to move uniformly in a circle, and its place as moving in…

much used in embroidery. Called also floxed silk. -- Floss thread, a kind of soft flaxen yarn or thread, used for embroidery; -- called also linen floss, and floss yarn. McElrath.

of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.

rough a slot. -- Forelock hook (Rope Making), a winch or whirl by which a bunch of three yarns is twisted into a standard. Knight. -- To take time, or occasion, by the forelock, to make prompt use of anything; not to let slip an opportunity. Time is painted with a lock before and bald behind, signifying thereby that…

Rope yarn twisted together, and rubbed with tar; -- used for seizings or mats.

A worsted yarn or cord of peculiar smoothness, used in the manufacture of braid, fringe, etc. Simmonds.

A kind of cotton or linen cloth, usually in stripes or checks, the yarn of which is dyed before it is woven; -- distinguished from printed cotton or prints.

cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.

given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands. Knight. All is grist that comes to his mill, all that he has anything to do with is a source of profit. [Colloq.] -- To bring grist to the maill, to bring profitable business into one's hands; t…

A parcel consisting of two or more skeins of yarn or thread tied together.

A spindle to wind yarn, thread, or silk on.

A large rope made of three strands each containing many yarns.

A yarn measure of six hundred yards or of a spindle. See Spindle.

An apparatus for drying anything, as yarn, cloth, sugar, etc., by centrifugal force; a centrifugal.

A wig; -- so called, perhaps, from being made of, or resembling, Jersey yarn. Thackeray.

The finest of wool separated from the rest; combed wool; also, fine yarn of wool.

To form, as a textile fabric, by the interlacing of yarn or thread in a series of connected loops, by means of needles, either by hand or by machinery; as, to knit stockings.

nd the like. -- Knitting , a stiff rod, as of steel wire, with rounded ends for knitting yarn or threads into a fabric, as in stockings. -- Knitting sheath, a sheath to receive the end of a needle in knitting.

In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.