• Needles

    Origin 1

    Noun

    plural

    1. Plural of needle

    Verb

    1. needles

      (third-person singular of needle)

    Origin 2

    See needless.

    Full definition of needles

    Adjective

    needles

    1. 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.

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