togs, threads, duds
(noun) informal terms for clothing
Source: WordNet® 3.1
threads
plural of thread
threads pl (plural only)
(slang) Clothes.
threads
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of thread
• Deharts, dearths, hard-set, hardest, hatreds, heardst, hetdars, sharted, trashed
Source: Wiktionary
Thread, n. Etym: [OE. threed, , AS. ; akin to D. draad, G. draht wire, thread, OHG. drat, Icel. a thread, Sw. tråd, Dan. traad, and AS. to twist. See Throw, and cf. Third.]
1. A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted.
2. A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver.
3. The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See Screw, n., 1.
4. Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse. Bp. Burnet.
5. Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness. [Obs.] A neat courtier, Of a most elegant thread. B. Jonson. Air thread, the fine white filaments which are seen floating in the air in summer, the production of spiders; gossamer.
– Thread and thrum, the good and bad together. [Obs.] Shak.
РThread cell (Zo̦l.), a lasso cell. See under Lasso.
РThread herring (Zo̦l.), the gizzard shad. See under Gizzard.
– Thread lace, lace made of linen thread.
– Thread needle, a game in which children stand in a row, joining hands, and in which the outer one, still holding his neighbor, runs between the others; -- called also thread the needle.
Thread, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Threaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Threading.]
1. To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle.
2. To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid. Heavy trading ships . . . threading the Bosphorus. Mitford. They would not thread the gates. Shak.
3. To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 May 2025
(noun) sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
