THREAD, a small line made up of a number of fine hairs of any vegetable or animal substance, such as flax, cotton, or silk; from which thread takes its name of linen, cotton, or silk.
* See Attica.
Nettle Thread. See NETTLE and URTICA.
Dyeing Thread black. Linen and cotton thread may be dyed of a durable and deep black by solution of iron in four beer, in which the linen is to be steeped for some time, and afterwards boiled in madder. See the article DYING, Part III.