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Acerose :: Acerose (a.) Needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine..

Snap :: Snap (v. i.) To break short, or at once; to part asunder suddenly; as, a mast snaps; a needle snaps..

Needlefish :: Needlefish (n.) The garfish.

Fibula :: Fibula (n.) A needle for sewing up wounds.

Declinometer :: Declinometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the declination of the magnetic needle.

Aclinic :: Aclinic (a.) Without inclination or dipping; -- said the magnetic needle balances itself horizontally, having no dip. The aclinic line is also termed the magnetic equator..

Waste :: Waste (v.) The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc..

Take-up :: Take-up (n.) That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch..

Pith :: Pith (v. t.) To destroy the central nervous system of (an animal, as a frog), as by passing a stout wire or needle up and down the vertebral canal..

Behavior :: Behavior (n.) Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle..

Stitch :: Stitch (v. i.) A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance..

Embroidery :: Embroidery (n.) Needlework used to enrich textile fabrics, leather, etc.; also, the art of embroidering..

Acupressure :: Acupressure (n.) A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface..

Needless :: Needless (a.) Having no need.

Openwork :: Openwork (n.) Anything so constructed or manufactured (in needlework, carpentry, metal work, etc.) as to show openings through its substance; work that is perforated or pierced..

Rhaphides :: Rhaphides (n. pl.) Minute transparent, often needle-shaped, crystals found in the tissues of plants..

Stylus :: Stylus (n.) The needle-like device used to cut the grooves which record the sound on the original disc during recording of a phonograph record.

Jack :: Jack (n.) A lever for depressing the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles.

Sew :: Sew (v. i.) To practice sewing; to work with needle and thread.

Hemmer :: Hemmer (n.) One who, or that which, hems with a needle..

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