Needles
Origin 1
Verb
needles
(third-person singular of needle)
Origin 2
See needless.
Full definition of needles
Adjective
needles
- Obsolete spelling of needless
- 1588?, Robert Browne (Brownist), “A Reproofe of Certeine Schismatical Persons & Their Doctrine Touching the Hearing & Preaching of the Word of God†in Cartwrightiana, ed. Albert Peel and Leland Henry Carlson (1951, published for the Sir Halley Stewart Trust by Allen and Unwin), page 228If anie do dislike the superstitious & needles cærimonies in ordination & yet also acknowledg that the Byshops may call, authorise, trie, confirme, & warrant by testimonie the sufficiencie of ministers
what greuous synne is it.