indistant (iou) and stitch(1) (iou)

indistant (iou)

indistant adjective.M17-L18.
[medieval Latin indistant-, formed as IN-3 + distant- DISTANT.]
Not distant, not separated by a gap; without gap or interval, continuous.

stitch noun1.

I. A prick, puncture, or stab inflicted by a pointed implement. Only in OE.
A sharp sudden localized pain, like that produced by the thrust of a pointed weapon. Now spec., an acutely painful cramp in the side of the body often resulting from running or vigorous Exercise. OE.
I. Watson We ran all the rest of the way; and I arrived with a stitch in my side.
b. In pl. Fits of laughter. Chiefly in in stitches. colloq. M20.
B. Chatwin Two clowns..keep everyone in stitches.
fig. A grudge, a dislike, a ground for complaint. Chiefly in have a stitch against, take a stitch against. L16-L17.
II.
a. A single pass of a threaded needle in and out of a fabric which is being sewn; the thread or loop left in the fabric between two successive needle holes as a result of this action. ME.
Proverb: a stitch in time saves nine. Thackeray She had not..advanced many stitches in the darning of that table-cloth.
b. Medicine. A single pass of a threaded needle through the edges of a wound or incision to join them together; the length or loop of thread or Other material fastened in the skin or flesh as a result of this action. Usu. in pl. LME.
R. Rendell He..put half a dozen stitches in the wound.
c. A single complete movement of the needle or Other implement used in knitting, crochet, embroidery, etc.; the portion of the work produced by such a movement. L16.
V. Glendinning Emmeline picked up a few stitches in the matted knitting.
d. A slight or single action, stroke of work of any kind. Usu. in neg. contexts. Now arch. rare. L16.
T. Middleton I'll not do a stitch of service for you.
A thread or loop as a basic constituent of a sewn or woven fabric; the least piece of fabric or item of clothing. L15.
A. Hollinghurst No one here wears a stitch of clothing.
A particular method of Sewing, knitting, crocheting, embroidery, etc.; the design or pattern of work thus produced. M16.
back-stitch, chain stitch, cross-stitch, moss-stitch, running stitch, etc.
A tailor. joc. L17.
Bookbinding. A fastening of leaves, esp. those of pamphlets, with thread or wire drawn through a hole previously pierced. obsolete exc. Hist. M19.
Phrases: a good stitch dial. a considerable distance (in walking). drop a stitch let a stitch fall from the end of a knitting-needle, crochet hook, etc. every stitch (a) all the clothes one is wearing; (b) Nautical every available piece of sail. set a stitch: see SET verb1.
Comb.: stitchbird a small honey-eater of New Zealand, Notiomystis cincta, which has a clicking call resembling the word 'stitch'; stitch weld noun & verb (a) noun a weld produced by stitch welding; (b) verb trans. subject to stitch welding; stitch welder a machine that performs stitch welding; stitch welding a form of spot welding in which a series of overlapping spot welds is produced automatically by machine; stitch-work embroidery; tapestry; stitchwort [from its reputed ability to relieve a stitch or sudden pain in the side] (a) (more fully greater stitchwort) a spring-flowering hedge plant, Stellaria holostea, of the pink family, with starry white flowers and opposite lanceolate leaves; (b) (with specifying word) any of several Other plants of this genus.
stitchless adjective (a) without stitches; (b) without a stitch of clothing, naked: E20.

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