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Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse. Bp. Burnet.

Having the form of a thread; filiform.

Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes. "A threadbare cope." Chaucer.

The state of being threadbare.

Made of thread; as, threaden sails; a threaden fillet. [Obs.] Shak.

A device for assisting in threading a needle.

Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.

) having the anterior rays of the soft dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the form of long threads.

Quality of being thready.

Any long, slender nematode worm, especially the pinworm and filaria.

Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub.

Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.

See under 2d Pack.

To draw or take out a thread from; as, to unthread a needle.

Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidæ), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniæ when irritated.

The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses.

ed altogether of small timber. -- Balloon net, a variety of woven lace in which the weft threads are twisted in a peculiar manner around the warp.

rising into the air. Many kinds ( esp. species of Lycosa) do this while young by ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries the spider aloft.

Threadbare; much worn. It appears by their bare liveries that they live by your bare words. Shak.

The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.