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aikinite 针硫铋铅矿 针硫铋铅矿 Needle \ Nee" dle\ ( n[= e]" d' l), n. [ OE. nedle, AS. n[= ae] dl; akin to D. neald, OS. n[= a] dla, G. nadel, OHG. n[= a] dal, n[= a] dala, Icel. n[= a] l, Sw. n[* a] l, Dan. naal, and also to G. n[ aum] hen to sew, OHG. n[= a] jan, L. nere to spin, Gr. ne` ein, and perh. to E. snare: cf. Gael. & Ir. snathad needle, Gael. snath thread, G. schnur string, cord.] 1. A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] Note: In some needles ( as for sewing machines) the eye is at the pointed end, but in ordinary needles it is at the blunt end. [ 1913 Webster] 2. See { Magnetic needle}, under { Magnetic}. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Bot.) One of the needle- shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See { Pinus}. [ 1913 Webster] 5. Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc. [ 1913 Webster] 6. A hypodermic needle; a syringe fitted with a hypodermic needle, used for injecting fluids into the body. [ Informal] [ PJC] 7. An injection of medicine from a hypodermic needle; a shot. [ PJC] { Dipping needle}. See under { Dipping}. { Needle bar}, the reciprocating bar to which the needle of a sewing machine is attached. { Needle beam} ( Arch.), in shoring, the horizontal cross timber which goes through the wall or a pier, and upon which the weight of the wall rests, when a building is shored up to allow of alterations in the lower part. { Needle furze} ( Bot.), a prickly leguminous plant of Western Europe; the petty whin ({ Genista Anglica}). { Needle gun}, a firearm loaded at the breech with a cartridge carrying its own fulminate, which is exploded by driving a slender needle, or pin, into it. [ archaic] { Needle loom} ( Weaving), a loom in which the weft thread is carried through the shed by a long eye- pointed needle instead of by a shuttle. { Needle ore} ( Min.), acicular bismuth; a sulphide of bismuth, lead, and copper occuring in acicular crystals; -- called also { aikinite}. { Needle shell} ( Zool.), a sea urchin. { Needle spar} ( Min.), aragonite. { Needle telegraph}, a telegraph in which the signals are given by the deflections of a magnetic needle to the right or to the left of a certain position. { Sea needle} ( Zool.), the garfish. [ 1913 Webster]
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