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[Sometimes written bobbin net.]The English machine-made net is now confined to point net, warp net, and bobbin net, so called from the peculiar construction of the machines by which they are produced. Tomlinsom.

A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garments. [Sometimes spelt bombasin, and bombasine.] Tomlinson.

A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard.

To warp; to become twisted out of shape. Stuff is said to cast or warp when . . . it alters its flatness or straightness. Moxon.

The warping of a board. Brande & C.

The warp threads of a web. Knight. Chain belt (Mach.), a belt made of a chain; -- used for transmitting power. -- Chain boat, a boat fitted up for recovering lost cables, anchors, etc. -- Chain bolt (a) (Naut.) The bolt at the lower end of the chain plate, which fastens it to the vessel's side. (b) A bolt with a chai…

of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.

the base, which is bellshaped and has attached to it the cables for controlling the wing-warping devices, elevator planes, and the like.

To cradle a picture, to put ribs across the back of a picture, to prevent the panels from warping.

A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.

A strong white fabric with warp of hemp and welt of flax.

The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping.

cts; a director. Directer plane (Geom.), the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.

Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed. Wise and dispassionate men. Clarendon.

Same as Drilling. Imperial drill, a linen fabric having two threads in the warp and three in the filling.

" Shak. Empress cloth, a cloth for ladies' dresses, either wholly of wool, or with cotton warp and wool weft. It resembles merino, but is not twilled.

One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.

To wear out or into shreads, or to suffer injury by rubbing, as when the threads of the warp or of the woof wear off so that the cross threads are loose; to ravel; as, the cloth frays badly. A suit of frayed magnificience. tennyson.

tal appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but more commonly made separate and sewed on, consisting sometimes of projecting ends, twisted or plaited together, and sometimes of loose threads of wool, silk, or linen, or narrow strips…

Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.