A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, - used in sewing.
See Magnetic needle, under Magnetic.
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.
One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus.
Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
A hypodermic needle; a syringe fitted with a hypodermic needle, used for injecting fluids into the body.
An injection of medicine from a hypodermic needle; a shot.
To form in the shape of a needle; as, to needle crystals.
To tease (a person), especially repeatedly.
To prod or goad (someone) into action by teasing or daring.
To form needles; to crystallize in the form of needles.
A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; - used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc.
To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein.
To wash and clean by injection from a syringe.
