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 Pearl n. A fringe or border. [Obs.] -- v. t. To fringe; to border. [Obs.] See Purl.
 Pearl stitch. See Purl stitch, under Purl.

 Stitch n.
 1. A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
 2. A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn; as, to let down, or drop, a stitch; to take up a stitch.
 3.  A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance.
    You have gone a good stitch.   --Bunyan.
    In Syria the husbandmen go lightly over with their plow, and take no deep stitch in making their furrows.   --Holland.
 4. A local sharp pain; an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle; as, a stitch in the side.
    He was taken with a cold and with stitches, which was, indeed, a pleurisy.   --Bp. Burnet.
 5. A contortion, or twist. [Obs.]
 If you talk,
 Or pull your face into a stitch again,
 I shall be angry.   --Marston.
 6. Any least part of a fabric or dress; as, to wet every stitch of clothes. [Colloq.]
 7. A furrow.
 8. An arrangement of stitches, or method of stitching in some particular way or style; as, cross-stitch; herringbone stitch, etc.
 Chain stitch, Lock stitch. See in the Vocabulary.
 Pearl stitch, or  Purl stitch. See 2nd Purl, 2.