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To twine, twist, or wreathe together or round. [Written also intwine.] Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks. Shelley. Thy glorious household stuff did me entwine. Herbert.

A twining or twisting together or round; union. Bp. Hacket.

To unite by twining one with another; to entangle; to interlace. Milton.

By intertwining or being intertwined.

To twine or twist into, or together; to wreathe; as, a wreath of flowers intwined. [Written also entwine.]

The act of twinning, or the state of being intwined.

To disentangle. [Obs.]

To win a way out of. [Obs.]

To extricate by winding; to unloose. [R.] Spenser. Dr. H. More.

To surpass, exceed, or outstrip in flying. Garth.

Any one of several species of small wrenlike Asiatic birds having short wings and a short tail. They belong to Brachypterix, Callene, and allied genera.

To untwist; to separate, as that which is twined or twisted; to disentangle; to untie. It requires a long and powerful counter sympathy in a nation to untwine the ties of custom which bind a people to the established and the old. Sir W. Hamilton.

A rod with one serpent twined around it, thus differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two.

Continued pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain. "Such an ache in my bones." Shak.

Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.

Any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a bine.

The winding or twining stem of a hop vine or other climbing plant.

To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye. One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame. Pope

That which twinkles or glances, as a dim star, which appears and disappears. Hakewill.

eral of a steel-gray to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. It is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper.