Word Meanings - NEEDLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like a needle or needles; as, a needly horn; a needly beard. R. D. Blackmore.

Related words: (words related to NEEDLY)

• 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,
• NEEDLESTONE
  Natrolite; -- called also needle zeolite.
• NEEDLEWOMAN
  A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.
• NEEDLY
  Like a needle or needles; as, a needly horn; a needly beard. R. D. Blackmore.
• BEARDLESSNESS
  The state or quality of being destitute of beard.
• 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
• BEARDIE
  The bearded loach of Europe.
• BEARDLESS
  1. Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful. 2. Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat.
• NEEDLER
  One who makes or uses needles; also, a dealer in needles. Piers Plowman.
• NEEDLEBOOK
  A book-shaped needlecase, having leaves of cloth into which the needles are stuck.
• BEARDED
  Having a beard. "Bearded fellow." Shak. "Bearded grain." Dryden. Bearded vulture, Bearded eagle. See Lammergeir. -- Bearded tortoise. See Matamata.
• NEEDLEFISH
  The European great pipefich ; -- called also earl, and tanglefish. The garfish.
• 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.
• BEARD
  Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain. 4. A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out. 5. That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw
• NEEDLE-POINTED
  Pointed as needles.
• NEEDLECASE
  A case to keep needles.
• SEABEARD
  A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
• BLUEBEARD
  The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it
• GRAYBEARD
  An old man. Shak.
• FORKBEARD
  A European fish , having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard. The European forked hake or hake's-dame ; -- also called great forked beard.
• TREEBEARD
  A pendulous branching lichen ; -- so called from its resemblance to hair.
• 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.
• DEVIL'S DARNING-NEEDLE
  A dragon fly. See Darning needle, under Darn, v. t.
• WHITEBEARD
  An old man; a graybeard.