'Pearl stitch' definitions:

Definition of 'Pearl stitch'

From: GCIDE
  • Pearl \Pearl\ (p[~e]rl), n. A fringe or border. [Obs.] -- v. t. To fringe; to border. [Obs.] See Purl. [1913 Webster]
  • Pearl stitch. See Purl stitch, under Purl. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Pearl stitch'

From: GCIDE
  • Stitch \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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • You have gone a good stitch. --Bunyan. [1913 Webster]
  • In Syria the husbandmen go lightly over with their plow, and take no deep stitch in making their furrows. --Holland. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. A local sharp pain; an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle; as, a stitch in the side. [1913 Webster]
  • He was taken with a cold and with stitches, which was, indeed, a pleurisy. --Bp. Burnet. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. A contortion, or twist. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • If you talk, Or pull your face into a stitch again, I shall be angry. --Marston. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. Any least part of a fabric or dress; as, to wet every stitch of clothes. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
  • 7. A furrow. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. An arrangement of stitches, or method of stitching in some particular way or style; as, cross-stitch; herringbone stitch, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • Chain stitch, Lock stitch. See in the Vocabulary.
  • Pearl stitch, or Purl stitch. See 2nd Purl, 2. [1913 Webster]