Word Meanings - FANCYWORK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc.

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• NETTLER
  One who nettles. Milton.
• NETTING
  A network of ropes used for various purposes, as for holding the hammocks when not in use, also for stowing sails, and for hoisting from the gunwale to the rigging to hinder an enemy from boarding. Totten. Netting needle, a kind of slender shuttle
• NEEDLESS
  1. Having no need. Weeping into the needless stream. Shak. 2. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses. 3. Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless. "Needless jealousy." Shak. -- Need"less*ly,
• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• NEEDLESTONE
  Natrolite; -- called also needle zeolite.
• NEEDLEWOMAN
  A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.
• NEEDLE
  One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus. 5. Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc. Dipping needle. See under Dipping. -- Needle bar, the reciprocating
• NETTLE
  A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the Northern, and U. chamædryoides in the Southern, United States. the common European species, U.
• EMBROIDERY
  1. Needlework used to enrich textile fabrics, leather, etc.; also, the art of embroidering. 2. Diversified ornaments, especially by contrasted figures and colors; variegated decoration. Fields in spring's embroidery are dressed. Addison. A mere
• NEEDLER
  One who makes or uses needles; also, a dealer in needles. Piers Plowman.
• NETTLEBIRD
  the European whitethroat.
• NEEDLEBOOK
  A book-shaped needlecase, having leaves of cloth into which the needles are stuck.
• ORNAMENTALLY
  By way of ornament.
• NEEDLEFISH
  The European great pipefich ; -- called also earl, and tanglefish. The garfish.
• NETTLING
  A process by which two ropes are jointed end so as to form one rope. The process of tying together the ends of yarns in pairs, to prevent tangling.
• NETTLES
  The halves of yarns in the unlaid end of a rope twisted for pointing or grafting. Small lines used to sling hammocks under the deck beams. Reef points.
• CROCHET
  A kind of knitting done by means of a hooked needle, with worsted, silk, or cotton; crochet work. Commonly used adjectively. Crochet hook, Crochet needle, a small hook, or a hooked needle (often of bone), used in crochet work.
• NEEDLEFUL
  As much thread as is used in a needle at one time.
• NEEDLEWORK
  1. Work executed with a needle; sewed work; sewing; embroidery; also, the business of a seamstress. 2. The combination of timber and plaster making the outside framework of some houses.
• NETTY
  Like a net, or network; netted.
• MINETTE
  The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs.
• SATINETTE
  One of a breed of fancy frilled pigeons allied to the owls and turbits, having the body white, the shoulders tricolored, and the tail bluish black with a large white spot on each feather.
• VILLANETTE
  A small villa.
• BONETTA
  See HERBERT
• MIGNONETTE
  A plant having greenish flowers with orange- colored stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb. Mignonette pepper, coarse pepper.
• KERSEYNETTE
  See CASSINETTE
• SEA NETTLE
  A jellyfish, or medusa.
• NONETT
  The titmouse.
• VINETTE
  A sprig or branch. Halliwell.
• CUNETTE
  A drain trench, in a ditch or moat; -- called also cuvette.
• PIANETTE
  A small piano; a pianino.
• CASSINETTE
  A cloth with a cotton wart, and a woof of very fine wool, or wool and silk.
• TOUCH-NEEDLE
  A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.