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Twigs and branches of evergreen plants used for decoration. "The funeral evengreens entwine." Keble.

Intertwined; interlocked; clasped together. Longfellow.

To knit together; to unite closely; to intertwine.

To unite, as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave. Severed into stripes That interlaced each other. Cowper. The epic way is every where interlaced with dialogue. Dryden. Interlacing arches (Arch.), arches, usually circular, so constructed that their archivolt…

To entangle; to intertwine. "Moss and intertangled vines." Longfellow.

To intertwine; to weave or bind together. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

By intertwining or being intertwined.

To twist together one with another; to intertwine.

To weave together; to intermix or unite in texture or construction; to intertwine; as, threads of silk and cotton interwoven. Under the hospitable covert nigh Of trees thick interwoven. Milton.

To weave into a wreath; to intertwine. [R.] Lovelace.

To twist in and out; to twine; to wreathe; to wind; to wring. Pope.

To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine. Some of serpent kind . . . involved Their snaky folds. Milton.

To weave in or together; to intermix or intertwine by weaving; to interlace. Down they cast Their crowns, inwove with amaranth and gold. Milton.

ike fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. Shak. Rose, rose and clematis, Trail and twine and clasp and kiss. Tennyson. Kissing comfit, a perfumed sugarplum to sweeten the breath. [Obs or Prov. End.] Shak.

A coarse lace made of twine, used especially in decorating furniture.

A paper or pasteboard box or shell, wound about with strong twine, filled with an explosive, and ignited with a fuse, -- used to make a noise like a cannon. [Written also maroon.]

To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle. And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair. Dryden.

sed in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting.

A fabric of twine, thread, or the like, wrought or woven into meshes, and used for catching fish, birds, butterflies, etc.

To twist or twine, as hair in making fishing lines.