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.)
8.An arrangement of stitches, or method of stitching in some particular way or style; as, cross-stitch; herringbone stitch, etc.
