Crossword clues for thready
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thready \Thread"y\, a.
Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub.
Containing, or consisting of, thread.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, resembling of capable of forming a thread; filamentous 2 (context of a pulse English) weak
WordNet
adj. forming viscous or glutinous threads [syn: ropy, ropey, stringy]
thin in diameter; resembling a thread [syn: filamentous, filiform, filamentlike, threadlike]
[also: threadiest, threadier]
Usage examples of "thready".
When it wandered to Pilar, a thready tension caught her system in its web.
The bodhran began beating from the back of the dwelling and was soon joined by the rapid thready sound of the whistles as the tunes for jigs and reels took the place of the delicate harp music.
Her heart raced in a thready beat but she kept silent as Zeke Choy studied the pattern of letters on his computer screen.
Within twenty seconds, the small dish in front of her was full of golden ribbed caps with stiff narrow stems and thready mycelia.
The patients were still much the same: three men in a low fever, with grave prostration, a weak thready intermittent pulse, fetid breath, severe headache, contracted pupils.
Picking up his wrist, she held her fingers over his radial pulse and watched the seconds flit by on her digital watch: one hundred and twenty beats per minute and thready.
I finally figured out that the part of the river I could see was where it came out of the turn from the last of the rapids below Lewis and Bobby, and calmed and smoothed out, losing its own thready silver for the broadlying moonlight.
Not even the cruel beating of Kushiel's bronze-winged presence sounded in my ears, but only the thready pulse of my failing heart, blood beating in my ears, bidding a faint farewell.
A thready pulse of vibration suddenly tickled her skin, and shadows crawled over the gully walls, moving in fitful jerks and leaps.
Suddenly he thought he felt a thready pulse, so faint it was virtually nonexistent.
He had almost certainly pulled him through the crisis -the faint thready pulse had strengthened this last hour, temperature had dropped, breathing was almost normal - but this triumph occupied only a remote corner of his mind: the rest was filled with dread.