Stitch /(?)/

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.

   In Syria the husbandmen go lightly over with their plow, and take no deep stitch in making their furrows.

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.

5. A contortion, or twist. [Obs.]

   If you talk, Or pull your face into a stitch again, I shall be angry.

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.

imp. & p. p. Stitched; p. pr. & vb. n. Stitching

1. To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches; as, to stitch a shirt bosom.
2. To sew, or unite together by stitches; as, to stitch printed sheets in making a book or a pamphlet.
3. To form land into ridges. (Agric.)

1. To practice stitching, or needlework.