Word Meanings - SLEAVED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Raw; not spun or wrought; as, sleaved thread or silk. Holinshed.

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• THREADFISH
  The cutlass fish. A carangoid fish having the anterior rays of the soft dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the form of long threads.
• THREADER
  1. A device for assisting in threading a needle. 2. A tool or machine for forming a thread on a screw or in a nut.
• THREADFIN
  Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.
• WROUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Work. Alas that I was wrought ! Chaucer.
• SLEAVED
  Raw; not spun or wrought; as, sleaved thread or silk. Holinshed.
• THREADBARENESS
  The state of being threadbare.
• THREAD-SHAPED
  Having the form of a thread; filiform.
• THREADY
  1. Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub. 2. Containing, or consisting of, thread.
• SLEAVE
  The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread. Silk not yet twisted; floss; -- called also sleave silk. Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care. Shak.
• THREADWORM
  Any long, slender nematode worm, especially the pinworm and filaria.
• THREADINESS
  Quality of being thready.
• THREADBARE
  1. Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes. "A threadbare cope." Chaucer. 2. Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations. Swift.
• THREADEN
  Made of thread; as, threaden sails; a threaden fillet. Shak.
• THREAD
  wire, thread, OHG. drat, Icel. a thread, Sw. tråd, Dan. traad, and 1. A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled,
• HIGH-WROUGHT
  1. Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate. Pope. 2. Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion. "A high-wrought flood." Shak.
• DOUBLETHREADED
  Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads. (more info) 1. Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.
• INWROUGHT
  Wrought or worked in or among other things; worked into any fabric so as to from a part of its texture; wrought or adorned, as with figures. His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge, Inwrought with figures dim. Milton. I"o, n.; pl. Ios. Etym:
• ROUGHWROUGHT
  Wrought in a rough, unfinished way; worked over coarsely.
• DISLEAVE
  To deprive of leaves. The cankerworms that annually that disleaved the elms. Lowell.
• OVERWROUGHT
  Wrought upon excessively; overworked; overexcited.
• UNTHREAD
  1. To draw or take out a thread from; as, to unthread a needle. 2. To deprive of ligaments; to loose the ligaments of. He with his bare wand can unthread thy joints. Milton. 3. To make one's way through; to traverse; as, to unthread a devious path.
• BEWROUGHT
  Embroidered. B. Jonson.