NEEDLE
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Nee"dle (n&ē;"d'l), n. [OE. nedle, AS. n&aē_;dl; akin to D. neald, OS. n&ā;dla, G. nadel, OHG. n&ā;dal, n&ā;dala, Icel. n&ā;l, Sw. nål, Dan. naal, and also to G. n&ä;hen to sew, OHG. n&ā;jan, L. nere to spin, Gr. ne`ein, and perh. to E. snare: cf. Gael. & Ir. snathad needle, Gael. snath thread, G. schnur string, cord.] 1. A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing. Chaucer.
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&hand_; In some needles (as for sewing machines) the eye is at the pointed end, but in ordinary needles it is at the blunt end.
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2. See Magnetic needle, under Magnetic.
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3. A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting.
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4. (Bot.) One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus.
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5. Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
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6. A hypodermic needle; a syringe fitted with a hypodermic needle, used for injecting fluids into the body. [Informal]
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7. An injection of medicine from a hypodermic needle; a shot.
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Dipping needle. See under Dipping. -- Needle bar, the reciprocating bar to which the needle of a sewing machine is attached. -- Needle beam (Arch.), in shoring, the horizontal cross timber which goes through the wall or a pier, and upon which the weight of the wall rests, when a building is shored up to allow of alterations in the lower part. -- Needle furze (Bot.), a prickly leguminous plant of Western Europe; the petty whin (Genista Anglica). -- Needle gun, a firearm loaded at the breech with a cartridge carrying its own fulminate, which is exploded by driving a slender needle, or pin, into it. [archaic] -- Needle loom (Weaving), a loom in which the weft thread is carried through the shed by a long eye-pointed needle instead of by a shuttle. -- Needle ore (Min.), acicular bismuth; a sulphide of bismuth, lead, and copper occuring in acicular crystals; -- called also aikinite. -- Needle shell (Zo&ö;l.), a sea urchin. -- Needle spar (Min.), aragonite. -- Needle telegraph, a telegraph in which the signals are given by the deflections of a magnetic needle to the right or to the left of a certain position. -- Sea needle (Zo&ö;l.), the garfish.
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Nee"dle, v. t. 1. To form in the shape of a needle; as, to needle crystals.
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2. To tease (a person), especially repeatedly.
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3. To prod or goad (someone) into action by teasing or daring.
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Nee"dle, v. i. To form needles; to crystallize in the form of needles.
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