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    Purl, n.
    1. An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band.
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      A triumphant chariot made of carnation velvet, enriched withpurl and pearl.
      Sir P. Sidney.

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    2. An inversion of stitches in knitting, which gives to the work a ribbed or waved appearance.
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      Purl stitch. Same as Purl, n., 2.
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    Stitch , n. [OE. stiche, AS. stice a pricking, akin to stician to prick. See Stick, v. i.]
    1. A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
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    2. A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn; as, to let down, or drop, a stitch; to take up a stitch.
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    3. [Cf. OE. sticche, stecche, stucche, a piece, AS. stycce. Cf. Stock.] A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance.
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      You have gone a good stitch.
      Bunyan.

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      In Syria the husbandmen go lightly over with their plow, and take no deep stitch in making their furrows.
      Holland.

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    4. A local sharp pain; an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle; as, a stitch in the side.
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      He was taken with a cold and with stitches, which was, indeed, a pleurisy.
      Bp. Burnet.

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    5. A contortion, or twist. [Obs.]
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      If you talk,
      Or pull your face into a stitch again,
      I shall be angry.
      Marston.

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    6. Any least part of a fabric or dress; as, to wet every stitch of clothes. [Colloq.]
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    7. A furrow.
      Chapman.

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    8. An arrangement of stitches, or method of stitching in some particular way or style; as, cross-stitch; herringbone stitch, etc.
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      Chain stitch, Lock stitch. See in the Vocabulary. -- Pearl stitch, or Purl stitch. See 2nd Purl, 2.
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