Thread (medicine) and sexton (iou)

Thread (medicine)

thread

1. A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or Other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted.

2. A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver.

3. The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See Screw.

4. Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse.

5. Composition; quality; fineness. "A neat courtier, Of a most elegant thread." (B. Jonson) Air thread, the fine white filaments which are seen floating in the air in summer, the production of spiders; gossamer. Thread and thrum, the good and bad together.

<zoology> Thread cell, the gizzard shad. See Gizzard. Thread lace, lace made of linen thread. Thread needle, a game in which children stand in a row, joining hands, and in which the outer one, still holding his neighbor, runs between the others; called also thread the needle.

Origin: OE. Threed, red, AS. Rd; akin to D. Draad, G. Draht wire, thread, OHG. Drat, Icel. Rar a thread, Sw. Trad, Dan. Traad, and AS. Rawan to twist. See Throw, and cf. Third.

Source: Websters Dictionary

sexton (iou)

sexton noun. ME.
[Anglo-Norman, Old French segerstein, secrestein from medieval Latin sacristanus SACRISTAN.]
A person responsible for looking after a church, its contents, and the churchyard, freq. acting as bell-ringer and gravedigger.
Comb.: sexton beetle any of various black or red and black carrion-beetles of the genus Nicrophorus, a burying beetle.
sextoness noun a female sexton LME.
sextonship noun the office or position of a sexton E16.

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