Section M, N, and O

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See under
Dipping. -- Needle bar, the
reciprocating bar to which the needle of a sewing machine is
attached. -- Needle beam (Arch.),
to shoring, the horizontal cross timber which goes through the
wall or a pier, and upon which the weight of the wall rests, when a
building is shored up to allow of alterations in the lower part.
-- Needle furze (Bot.), a prickly
leguminous plant of Western Europe; the petty whin (Genista
Anglica). -- Needle gun, a firearm
loaded at the breech with a cartridge carrying its own fulminate,
which is exploded by driving a slender needle, or pin, into it.
-- Needle loom (Weaving), a loom in
which the weft thread is carried through the shed by a long eye-
pointed needle instead of by a shuttle. -- Needle
ore (Min.), acicular bismuth; a sulphide of
bismuth, lead, and copper occuring in acicular crystals; -- called
also aikinite. -- Needle shell
(Zoöl.), a sea urchin. -- Needle
spar (Min.), aragonite.

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