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Needlework; -- in comtempt. Shak.

The act of one who stitches.

See Stichwort.

fifth medal, leads a horse with something like a thread; in her other hand she holds a switch. Addison.

A beverage of molasses and water, seasoned with vinegar and ginger. [U. S.]

from Switch, v. Switching engine, a locomotive for switching cars from one track to another, and making up trains; -- called also switch engine. [U.S.]

One who tends a switch on a railway.

Whisking. [Colloq.] Coombe.

ength of any business; fully; completely. [Obs.] Preservance alone can carry us thoroughstitch. L'Estrange.

The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper.

To pull with a sudden jerk; to pluck with a short, quick motion; to snatch; as, to twitch one by the sleeve; to twitch a thing out of another's hand; to twitch off clusters of grapes. Thrice they twitched the diamond in her ear. Pope.

See Quitch grass.

One who, or that which, twitches.

To free from a spell; to disenchant. [R.] South.

To dig an underground ditches in, so as to drain the surface; to underdrain; as, to underditch a field or a farm.

A switch which opens a circuit when the current falls below a certain predetermined value, used to protect certain types of motors from running at excessive speed upon decrease of load.

To fill underneath; to stuff. [Obs.] He drank and well his girdle underpight. Chaucer.

To free from being hitched, or as if from being hitched; to unfasten; to loose; as, to unhitch a horse, or a trace.

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

To free from a witch or witches; to fee from witchcraft. [R.] B. Jonson.