thread (n.)
- alpaca
- angora
- array
- articulation
- bank
- bast
- buzz
- cashmere
- catena
- catenation
- chain
- cilium
- cirrus
- cobweb
- coir
- concatenation
- connect
- connection
- continuum
- cord
- cotton
- course
- cycle
- denier
- descent
- direction
- dishwater
- drift
- drone
- ease
- fiber
- fibrilla
- filament
- file
- filiation
- flagellum
- flax
- floss
- gamut
- gossamer
- gradation
- gruel
- hair
- hank
- hemp
- horsehair
- hum
- inch
- join
- jute
- kapok
- line
- lineage
- linen
- link
- matchwood
- merino
- mohair
- monotone
- motif
- nexus
- nylon
- oakum
- pass
- pendulum
- periodicity
- plenum
- plot
- progression
- queue
- raffia
- range
- rank
- rayon
- recurrence
- reed
- reticulation
- rotation
- round
- routine
- row
- run
- scale
- sequence
- series
- silk
- sisal
- skein
- spandex
- spectrum
- strand
- string
- subject
- succession
- suture
- swath
- tendril
- tenor
- theme
- thesis
- tier
- train
- tussah
- twine
- water
- web
- wind
- wool
- worsted
- yarn
- zephyr
thread (v.)
The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!
Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
My tears must stop, for every drop
Hinders needle and thread.
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
For fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
And twins ev'n from the birth are misery and man!
With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat in unwomanly rags
Plying her needle and thread,—
Stitch! Stitch! Stitch!
Sewing at once a double thread,
A shroud as well as a shirt.
I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together.
The spinsters and the knitters in the sun
And the free maids that weave their thread with bones
Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth,
And dallies with the innocence of love,
Like the old age.
