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Purl \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.

A triumphant chariot made of carnation velvet,
enriched withpurl and pearl. --Sir P.
Sidney.

2. An inversion of stitches in knitting, which gives to the
work a ribbed or waved appearance.

{Purl stitch}. Same as {Purl}, n., 2.


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.

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.

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.

You have gone a good stitch. --Bunyan.

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

4. A local sharp pain; an acute pain, like the piercing of a
needle; as, a stitch in the side.

He was taken with a cold and with stitches, which
was, indeed, a pleurisy. --Bp. Burnet.

5. A contortion, or twist. [Obs.]

If you talk,
Or pull your face into a stitch again,
I shall be angry. --Marston.

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

7. A furrow. --Chapman.

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.