thread-like, a.
(ˈθrɛdlaɪk)
[f. as prec. + -like.]
Like a thread; also, like that of a thread.
| 1774 Mrs. Delany in Life & Corr. Ser. ii. (1862) II. 47 A little brassish, copperish, goldish thread-like stuff adhering to a bit of slate or coal. 1814 Southey Roderick xvii. 50 The stream's perpetual flow..with its..Dimples and thread-like motions infinite. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 604/1 Cellular tissue formed of white thread-like filaments. 1901 Scribner's Mag. XXIX. 433/2 Ridges over which the white tracks wind, thread-like, toward the hazy rim of mountains. |
b. Of the pulse: = thready 4.
| a 1829 in Good's Study Med. (1829) II. 612 Difficulty of swallowing; thread-like pulse. 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 818 The heart's action becomes extremely feeble, and the pulse threadlike and uncountable. Ibid. IV. 389 It may be found that a pulsation of thread-like smallness will pass in spite of almost any pressure which the finger can apply. |