Before commencing operations, the imping-needle to be used should be immersed in the bath of vinegar or salt water.
The imping-needle should be of iron or steel, filed down lengthwise to a triangular shape and pointed at the ends.
The latter must have provided himself beforehand with a very sharp penknife, a small saucer of vinegar or strong brine, an imping-needle of the proper size, and a feather of the proper sort.
When a silk thread is passed by means of a needle through the upper eyelids and made fast under the chin she is said to be "seeled," and the process of undoing these fastenings is called "unseeling.
When it has had time to become immovably settled in its place the imping can be done with an imping-needle in the ordinary way, the new piece of feather having been plugged also in a similar way, if necessary.
She is less likely, when in the dark or hooded, to meddle with the mended feather; and when it has been left alone for twelve hours, the needle will have begun to rust in the pith of it, and thus be firmly stuck fast at both ends.
Into the small apertures thus made, the imping-needle will be more easily passed in the proper direction than if there had been no such preliminary boring.
The tenacity of the rusted iron keeps the needleimmovably in its place; and an imped feather, if it afterwards breaks at all, will break more readily in any part of it than near the place where the juncture has been made.
They hold it near the surface of the water, giving it a rotary motion until the needle turns upon the water: they then withdraw the stone suddenly, when the needle, with its two ends, points to the north and south.
All these authors agree in fixing the period at which the use of the needle was popularized in Europe, at the latter part of the twelfth and the commencement of the thirteenth century.
Arriving at a place where the dipping-needle pointed to 89 deg.
I heard it said that the captains in the Indian seas substitute for the needle and reed a hollow iron fish, magnetized, so that, when placed in the water, it points to the north with its head and to the south with its tail.
A bar of steel which is not magnetic, being placed in the same position, relatively to the pole of the earth, which the magnetic needle assumes, and in this position being heated and suddenly cooled, becomes a permanent magnet.
Effect of lightning on the needle of compasses, explained.
I then electrised the stand negatively, expecting the needle to turn the contrary way, but was extremely disappointed, for it went still the same way as before.
I placed the needle of a compass on the point of a long pin, and holding it in the atmosphere of the prime conductor, at the distance of about three inches, found it to whirl round like the flyers of a jack, with great rapidity.
Then, electrising the stand, I had the pleasure of seeing what I expected; the wooden needle turned round, carrying the pins with their heads foremost.
Phillis stuck her needle into Miss Milner's body-lining so viciously that it broke.
I would as soon arm myself with a dagger as a needle or a pair of scissors.
The writing line dots are [p110] pricked through all the sheets by means of a fine awl or needle set in a wooden handle (fig.
They are picked up separately by means of a needle stuck into their backing-paper.
The Minster at Rippon is a fine gothic structure, it formerly contained a narrow passage called the Needle of St. Wilfred, used by the monks as an ordeal for female purity.
Let r be the radius of the torsion rod, l its length from the needle over ef to r, and [alpha] the observed torsion angle.
The central vertical rod gr forms a torsion rod, being fixed at r to the frame abcd, and, passing freely upwards through the guides, it carries a horizontal needle moving over the graduated circle ef.
The torsion rod will be unstrained, and the needle will be at zero on the graduated circle.
Then the needleis fixed, and the apparatus carrying the graduated circle oscillates.
That angle will be given by the distance of the needle from zero.
Such a needle can be controlled by an ordinary governor.
A conical needle in the nozzle can be advanced or withdrawn so as to occupy more or less of the aperture of the nozzle.
This was partly true, for Jacko sat on a chair, in his favourite attitude, copied accurately from the workmen of the establishment at their labour with needle and thread.
It takes nerve and patience to wait for thirteen solid hours without moving more than an occasional flexure of muscles, but he managed that long before the instrument case waggled a meter needle at him.
When the needle on the instrument panel flickered, he got to his feet and began moving.
No needle charges this time; such shots would have blown them both in two, unprotected as they were by spacesuits.
From the left nostril of the not-rat, a tiny glasslike needlesnapped out at bullet speed.
Then, as the tiny needle dissolved in its bloodstream, it closed its eyes and collapsed, rolling limply off the rail.
In two instances touching the filament produced no effect; but when the point of a needlewas driven into the slip at the base of the filament, the lobes slowly closed.
The two projecting edges are not actually united, and a needle can be pushed in easily between them.
On another occasion forty-five glands on eleven leaves were touched once, twice, or even thrice, with a needle or stiff bristle.
The free margin of the valve bends so easily that no resistance is felt when a needle or thin bristle is inserted.
Extremely minute particles of the dry phosphate were placed [page 155] with the point of a needle on the secretion surrounding several glands.
I made a vast number of trials by placing, by means of a fine needle moistened with distilled water, and with the aid of a lens, particles of various substances on the viscid secretion surrounding the glands of the outer tentacles.
Those which were not affected were left for about half an hour, and the particles were then disturbed or tilted up several times with a fine needle under the microscope, the glands not being touched.
If a minute bit of meat be placed by the aid of a needle on a single gland, or on three or four together, halfway between the centre and the circumference of the disc, the directed movement of the surrounding tentacles is well exhibited.
To find a submarine in these waters would be worse than finding a needle in a haystack.
Before I could bring the magnet within an inch of the hole, the nail within sprang out and attached itself to the magnet, just as a needle springs up and clings to the horseshoe magnet of a child.
Or a knitting-needle can be held vertically before you at arm's length, giving you a line passing through point A.
First note the points at which the curvature begins and ends, and then the distances it travels from a line joining these two points, holding up a pencil or knitting-needle against the model if need be.
The method employed is to run the thumb-nail up the needle until the distance from the point so reached to the top exactly corresponds with the distance on the object you wish to measure.
The advantage of the needle is that comparative measurements can be taken with it.
Nothing was now heard but the methodical click of her needle as it struck the head of her thimble, and then the long swish of the thread as she drew it through the cloth.
The conversation then came to a pause, and all that was heard for a long time was the clicking of the needle and the rustling of silk.
Placing the two side-seams and the back under the needle, she gave the wheel a turn, and rapidly the little steel needle darted up and down into the glistening silk, as Miss Hender's thick hands pushed it forward.
Finding a case of needle guns at Owatonna for Brisette, they took them on with them, arriving at Janesville at one o'clock.
A lady, calling on his wife, happened to mention that a needle had been once broken into her foot, and she did not know whether it had been all extracted or not.
He never ceased to regard the world from the child's point of view, and his personification of an old clothes-press or a darning-needle was therefore as natural as that of a child who beats the chair against which it bumped its head.
Common laces should be folded evenly together into many thicknesses, and then basted through and through around the edges, with a fine needle and thread.
If the lace is pointed, pass the needle and thread through each point; put the bottle into a jar or deep pitcher filled with warm suds.
They will break some, and the pricking each one with a needle before stewing them, makes little, if any difference.
Sew it up with a needle and coarse thread; tie the skin over the end of the neck with a thread or piece of twine.
To wash elegant, expensive laces, sew a piece of white flannel closely around a common junk bottle, and wind the lace round and round perfectly smooth, and with a fine needle and thread, baste it enough to keep it in place.
Sew on the piece with a needle and coarse thread, or bind a strip of old cotton around each one and sew it.
I concealed on myself, as well as I was able, my pin, my silk, and the pieces of sewing with the needle and pin.
I felt very ill during this night, and often turned about in bed; there was a needle in the bed, with which I scratched myself; I got it out, and still have it.
If the patient dies it is evident he stuck the needle into the wrong spot.
He therefore inserted a needle which unfortunately pierced the synovial sac causing inflammation which finally resulted in complete destruction of the joint.
That is what I asked the dealer from whom I bought it," he replied, "and he told me that those spots indicate where the needle can be inserted in treatment by acupuncture without killing the patient.
When a Chinese is ill the doctor generally concludes that the only way to cure him is to stick a long needle into him and let out the pain or set up counter irritation.
