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Oscillaria :: Oscillaria (n.) A genus of dark green, or purplish black, filamentous, fresh-water algae, the threads of which have an automatic swaying or crawling motion. Called also Oscillatoria..

Shed :: Shed (n.) The passageway between the threads of the warp through which the shuttle is thrown, having a sloping top and bottom made by raising and lowering the alternate threads..

Untwist :: Untwist (v. t.) To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine..

Unravel :: Unravel (v. t.) To disentangle; to disengage or separate the threads of; as, to unravel a stocking..

Bobbin :: Bobbin (n.) A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc..

Trevat :: Trevat (n.) A weaver's cutting instrument; for severing the loops of the pile threads of velvet.

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) The length, measured along the axis, of a complete turn of the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw propeller..

Thread :: Thread (n.) Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness.

Pack Thread :: Pack thread () See under 2d Pack.

Thread :: Thread (v. t.) To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut..

Single :: Single (a.) Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope..

Filipendulous :: Filipendulous (a.) Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets..

Ditty-bag :: Ditty-bag (n.) A sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, etc.; -- also called sailor's housewife..

Whipworm :: Whipworm (n.) A nematode worm (Trichocephalus dispar) often found parasitic in the human intestine. Its body is thickened posteriorly, but is very long and threadlike anteriorly..

Threadbare :: Threadbare (a.) Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes.

Filose :: Filose (a.) Terminating in a threadlike process.

Agave :: Agave (n.) A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. 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..

Quill :: Quill (v. t.) To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn..

Fillet :: Fillet (n.) The thread of a screw.

Floating :: Floating (n.) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above..

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