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n. A counselor never pleaded without a piece of pack thread in his hand, which he used to twist about a finger all the while he was speaking; the wags used to call it the thread of his discourse. Addison.

To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise. The planks looked warped. Coleridge. Walter warped his mouth at this To something so mock solemn, that I laughed. Tennyson.

One who, or that which, warps or twists out of shape.

Having a left-hand twist; -- said of cordage; as, a water-laid, or left-hand, rope.

To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.

To secure the end of (a rope, or the like) from untwisting by overcasting it with small stuff.

A kind of hard-twisted or braided cord, sometimes used for making whiplashes.

The lash of a whip, -- usually made of thongs of leather, or of cords, braided or twisted.

A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached.

A bundle of fibers, or a loosely twisted or braided cord, tape, or tube, usually made of soft spun cotton threads, which by capillary attraction draws up a steady supply of the oil in lamps, the melted tallow or wax in candles, or other material used for illumination, in small successive portions, to be burned. But tru…

the material of which wicks are made; esp., a loosely braided or twisted cord or tape of cotton.

bout something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball. Whether to wind The woodbine round this arbor. Milton.

Twisting from a direct line or an even surface; circuitous. Keble.

also, to draw or spin out to great length and tenuity; as, to wiredraw an argument. Such twisting, such wiredrawing, was never seen in a court of justice. Macaulay.

with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. Shak. Pity your own, or pity our estate, Nor twist our fortunes with your sinking fate. Dryden. See where on earth the flowery glories lie; With her they flourished, and with her they die. Pope. There is no living with thee nor without thee. Tatler. Such arguments had invinc…

A band consisting of a twig twisted.

Well-twisted yarn spun of long-staple wool which has been combed to lay the fibers parallel, used for carpets, cloth, hosiery, gloves, and the like.

imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.

Something twisted, intertwined, or curled; as, a wreath of smoke; a wreath of flowers. "A wrethe of gold." Chaucer. [He] of his tortuous train Curled many a wanton wreath. Milton.

To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn. [Obs.] And from so heavy sight his head did wreathe. Spenser.