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Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes.
Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations.
The state of being threadbare.
of Thread
Made of thread; as, threaden sails; a threaden fillet.
A device for assisting in threading a needle.
A tool or machine for forming a thread on a screw or in a nut.
Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.
The cutlass fish.
A carangoid fish (Caranx gallus, or C. crinitus) having the anterior rays of the soft dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the form of long threads.
Quality of being thready.
of Thread
Any long, slender nematode worm, especially the pinworm and filaria.
Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub.
Containing, or consisting of, thread.
To call; to name.
To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; also, to contend or argue against (another) with obstinacy; to chide; as, he threaped me down that it was so.
To beat, or thrash.
To cozen, or cheat.
To contend obstinately; to be pertinacious.