Word Meanings - STITCHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of one who stitches. 2. Work done by sewing, esp. when a continuous line of stitches is shown on the surface; stitches, collectively.

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• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• CONTINUOUSLY
  In a continuous maner; without interruption. -- Con*tin"u*ous*ness, n.
• SURFACE TENSION
  That property, due to molecular forces, which exists in the surface film of all liquids and tends to bring the contained volume into a form having the least superficial area. The thickness of this film, amounting to less than a thousandth
• SEWE
  To perform the duties of a sewer. See 3d Sewer.
• SEWAGE
  1. The contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewers 2. Sewerage, 2.
• SEW
  Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy. Gower. I will not tell of their strange sewes. Chaucer.
• SEWELLEL
  A peculiar gregarious burrowing rodent , native of the coast region of the Northwestern United States. It somewhat resembles a muskrat or marmot, but has only a rudimentary tail. Its head is broad, its eyes are small and its fur is brownish above,
• SEWERAGE
  1. The construction of a sewer or sewers. 2. The system of sewers in a city, town, etc.; the general drainage of a city or town by means of sewers.
• SEWEL
  A scarecrow, generally made of feathers tied to a string, hung up to prevent deer from breaking into a place. Halliwell.
• SHOWN
  p. p. of Show.
• SURFACE
  A magnitude that has length and breadth without thickness; superficies; as, a plane surface; a spherical surface. (more info) 1. The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face;
• SEWER
  A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk; as, the apple-leaf sewer (Phoxopteris nubeculana) (more info) 1. One who sews, or stitches.
• SEWSTER
  A seamstress. B. Jonson.
• SURFACER
  A form of machine for dressing the surface of wood, metal, stone, etc.
• SEWIN
  See SEWEN
• SEWEN
  A British trout usually regarded as a variety of the salmon trout.
• CONTINUOUS
  Not deviating or varying from uninformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated. Continuous brake , a brake which is attached to each car a train, and can be caused to operate in all the cars simultaneously from a point on any car or on the
• SEWING
  1. The act or occupation of one who sews. 2. That which is sewed with the needle. Sewing horse (Harness making), a clamp, operated by the foot, for holding pieces of leather while being sewed. -- Sewing machine, a machine for sewing or stitching.
• BRUISEWORT
  A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• HOUSEWIFE
  A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for 3. A hussy. Shak. Sailor's housewife, a ditty-bag. (more info) 1. The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. Shak. He a good husband, a good
• ELSEWISE
  Otherwise.
• HOUSEWARMING
  A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. Johnson.
• DOUBLE-SURFACED
  Having two surfaces; -- said specif. of aëroplane wings or aërocurves which are covered on both sides with fabric, etc., thus completely inclosing their frames.
• HOUSEWIFELY
  Pertaining or appropriate to a housewife; domestic; economical; prudent. A good sort of woman, ladylike and housewifely. Sir W. Scott.
• HORSEWORM
  The larva of a botfly.
• GOOSEWINGED
  Having a "goosewing." Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing.
• HORSEWOOD
  A West Indian tree with showy, crimson blossoms.
• ELSEWHERE
  1. In any other place; as, these trees are not to be found elsewhere. 2. In some other place; in other places, indefinitely; as, it is reported in town and elsewhere.
• HORSEWHIP
  A whip for horses.
• ROSEWOOD
  A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and variegated with black, obtained from several tropical leguminous trees of the genera Dalbergia and Machærium. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the Dalbergia nigra.
• HOUSEWRIGHT
  A builder of houses.
• GOOSEWING
  One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.