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Hairsplitter :: Hairsplitter (n.) One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles.

Sinker :: Sinker (n.) In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles..

Tease :: Tease (v. t.) To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments..

Chassepot :: Chassepot (n.) A kind of breechloading, center-fire rifle, or improved needle gun..

Aciform :: Aciform (a.) Shaped like a needle.

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

Cannulated :: Cannulated (a.) Hollow; affording a passage through its interior length for wire, thread, etc.; as, a cannulated (suture) needle..

Needless :: Needless (a.) Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses..

Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly.

Southness :: Southness (n.) A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole.

Compensator :: Compensator (n.) An iron plate or magnet placed near the compass on iron vessels to neutralize the effect of the ship's attraction on the needle.

Compass :: Compass (n.) An instrument for determining directions upon the earth's surface by means of a magnetized bar or needle turning freely upon a pivot and pointing in a northerly and southerly direction.

Garfish :: Garfish (n.) A European marine fish (Belone vulgaris); -- called also gar, gerrick, greenback, greenbone, gorebill, hornfish, longnose, mackerel guide, sea needle, and sea pike..

Astatic :: Astatic (a.) Having little or no tendency to take a fixed or definite position or direction: thus, a suspended magnetic needle, when rendered astatic, loses its polarity, or tendency to point in a given direction..

Feed :: Feed (n.) The motion, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing machine; or of producing progressive operation upon any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the work..

Obelus :: Obelus (n.) A mark [thus /, or � ]; -- so called as resembling a needle. In old MSS. or editions of the classics, it marks suspected passages or readings..

Sewing :: Sewing (n.) That which is sewed with the needle.

Corona :: Corona (n.) A peculiar phase of the aurora borealis, formed by the concentration or convergence of luminous beams around the point in the heavens indicated by the direction of the dipping 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..

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

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