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thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn; as, to let down, or drop, a stitch; to take up a stitch.

A kind of hairy wool. [Prov.]

One who stitches; a seamstress.

Needlework; -- in comtempt. Shak.

The act of one who stitches.

See Stichwort.

A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.

A buttonhole stitch worked wide apart on the edge of material, as blankets, too thick to hem.

To fold and sew down the edge of with a coarse zigzag stitch.

An ornamental stitch like the links of a chain; -- used in crocheting, sewing, and embroidery.

A form of stitch, where the stitches are diagonal and in pairs, the thread of one stitch crossing that of the other. "Tent and cross- stitch." Sir W. Scott. -- Cross"-stitch`, v. t. & i.

A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.

The simplest stitch in knitting.

parallel threads, and fastening the cross threads in successive small clusters; as, to hemstitch a handkerchief.

ving a broad hem separated from the body of the article by a line of open work; as, a hemistitched handkerchief.

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

Stitched according to a formal pattern. "An old set-stiched chair, valanced, and fringed with party-colored worsted bobs." Sterne.

A stitch in lace making used to fill in open spaces with threads resembling a cobweb.

A stitch used in stem work to produce a fine line, much used in old church embroidery to work the hands and faces of figures.

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