... about 12,000 inhabitants, who chiefly live by spinning, dyeing, and selling silk, particularly sewing silk; lat. ... these branches of industry have somewhat declined. Cotton spinning and weaving increased, to a great extent, to- ...

... or wrought with lees and size, without either spinning or weaving. Felt is made either of wool ... to be used flat, as it is without spinning, in certain stuffs, laces, embroideries, &c. Gold-thread, ...

[Rolling and spinning tobacco] ... Workers at a long bench are rolling and spinning tobacco leaves; others sitting nearby are binding together ... [Rolling and spinning tobacco] Florinus, Franciscus Philippus (pseud.), Author. Workers at a long bench are rolling and spinning tobacco leaves; others ...

... feeling of giddiness and sickness at the stomach; spinning of the head, with darkening of sight, and ... gloomy melancholy; sudden fits of reeling giddiness, with spinning of the head and wavering gait; sensation as ...

... the trade during their residence in the asylum. Spinning of twine and rope-making are also generally ... turnpike road, gardening, trenching and laying out grounds, spinning, winding for weavers, shoemaking and mending." Ferrus, in ...

[Witchcraft or spinning the web of fate] ... [Witchcraft or spinning the web of fate] Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374, author. Aged Symbolism Women An old woman, standing in a ...

... led her troops, a warriour dame; Unbred to spinning, in the loom unskill'd. She chose the ... rack and wheel. Addison. 5. The instrument of spinning. Verse sweetens care, however rude the sound; All ...

... in the business of making ma- chinery and spinning cotton at Manches- ter, and afterwards managed, during three or four years, a large spinning establish- ment there. He then formed a partner ...

... spider, for presuming to vie with her at spinning. ARETHU'SA, the daughter of Nereus. ARGENTENUS, and ... so enamoured, that she made him submit to spinning and other unbecoming offices. OPER'TUS, a name ...

... Spilanthes acmella, 148. Spinach, 116. Spinacia oleracea, 116. Spinning and weaving, figured, 5. Sponge, 46. Squash, 142. ... cress, 86. Water-melon, 14, 15. Weaving and spinning, figured, 5. Weeds on the river-flats of ...