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Definition of Threadiest
1. thready [adj] - See also: thready
Lexicographical Neighbors of Threadiest
Literary usage of Threadiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forest Life by Caroline Matilda Kirkland (1844)
"... with a proportionate number of streams — the very threadiest capable of being
dammed into a respectable duckpond — supply moisture to our fields. ..."
2. History of Sculpture, Painting, and Architecture by John Smythe Memes (1834)
"Again, in that region of Asia, already noticed as the scene of threadiest recorded
labours of the art, wood was abundant. From the descriptions of Holy ..."
3. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, James Norris Brewer, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Frederic Shoberl, Joseph Nightingale, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, John Bigland, John Evans, Thomas Rees (1813)
"This will also account for the origin of the name of the hundred through the
heart of which the river takes its course, now, and from threadiest times, ..."
4. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1872)
"When is it safe to free an artery from Acil-pressure f—If one could toll threadiest
time at which an artery could be safely freo from acupressure, ..."
5. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1889)
"Without dwelling further on these symptoms, what I would rather desire to impress
here is the possibility of recognising threadiest incipient stage of ..."
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