英文英文字典
英文英文字典
古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
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Threadbare
(a.)
Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off;
threadbare clothes.
Threadbare
(a.)
Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics
and threadbare quotations.
Threadbareness
(n.)
The state of being threadbare.
Threaded
(imp. & p. p.)
of Thread
Threaden
(a.)
Made of thread; as, threaden sails; a threaden fillet.
Threader
(n.)
A device for assisting in threading a needle.
Threader
(n.)
A tool or machine for forming a thread on a screw or in a
nut.
Threadfin
(n.)
Any one of several species of fishes belonging to
Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral
filaments.
Threadfish
(n.)
The cutlass fish.
Threadfish
(n.)
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.
Threadiness
(n.)
Quality of being thready.
Threading
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Thread
Threadworm
(n.)
Any long, slender nematode worm, especially the pinworm
and filaria.
Thready
(a.)
Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots
of a shrub.
Thready
(a.)
Containing, or consisting of, thread.
Threap
(v. t.)
To call; to name.
Threap
(v. t.)
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.
Threap
(v. t.)
To beat, or thrash.
Threap
(v. t.)
To cozen, or cheat.
Threap
(v. i.)
To contend obstinately; to be pertinacious.