Stitch | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Stĭtch, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. STITCHED (stĭcht); p. pr. & vb. n. STITCHING.] [A-S. stician, to prick, pierce; Ger. sticken, to stitch, embroider; D. stikken, Sw. sticka. Cf. STICK.]

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.
To sew or unite together; as, to stitch the leaves of a book and form a pamphlet.
(Agric.) To form land into ridges.

To stitch up, to mend or unite with a needle and thread; as, to stitch up a rent; to stitch up an artery.

Stĭtch, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. To practice stitching.

Stĭtch, n.

noun

n. 1. A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.

Sense 2. A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link of yarn; as, to let down a stitch; to take up a stitch.

Sense 3. A space between two double furrows in plowed ground.

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

Sense 4. A local, sharp pain; an acute lancinating 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. Burnet.

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

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

Sense 6. Space passed over; distance; way. [Obs.]