Definition of loom

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Loom (n.) A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making..

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Mirk :: Mirk (a.) Dark; gloomy; murky.
Glooming :: Glooming (n.) Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming.
Blooth :: Blooth (n.) Bloom; a blossoming.
Scowl :: Scowl (n.) Hence, gloom; dark or threatening aspect..
Pick :: Pick (n.) The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch..
Minder :: Minder (n.) One who minds, tends, or watches something, as a child, a machine, or cattle; as, a minder of a loom..
Flower :: Flower (n.) The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth..
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over.
Reed :: Reed (n.) A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft; a sley. See Batten..
Oar :: Oar (n) An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the other. The part which rests in the rowlock is called the loom..
Erebus :: Erebus (n.) A place of nether darkness, being the gloomy space through which the souls passed to Hades. See Milton's Paradise Lost, Book II., line 883..
Aside :: Aside (adv.) Out of one's thoughts; off; away; as, to put aside gloomy thoughts..
Flower :: Flower (n.) In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage..
Pruinose :: Pruinose (a.) Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost..
Cylinder :: Cylinder (n.) The revolving square prism carrying the cards in a Jacquard loom.
Floriage :: Floriage (n.) Bloom; blossom.
Dull :: Dull (superl.) Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day..
Prime :: Prime (a.) Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
Glome :: Glome (v. i.) To gloom; to look gloomy, morose, or sullen..
Swart :: Swart (a.) Gloomy; malignant.
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