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The act of drawing the warp threads through the heddle-eyes of a weaver's harness; the harness itself. Knight.

To pleach; to interweave. [Obs.] Shak.

To infold; to fold together; to interweave. The meeting boughs and implicated leaves. Shelley.

n of good sense. Cowper. To shelter us from impressions of weather, we must spin, we must weave, we must build. Barrow.

To interweave. [R.]

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 archivolts intersect and…

To interweave or interlace. [R.] Brende.

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

imp. & p. p. of Interweave.

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

To twist into or together; to interweave. [Written also entwist.]

A cloth colored green by dye obtained from the woad-waxen, formerly used by Flemish weavers at Kendal, in Westmoreland, England. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants). How couldst thou know these men in Kendal green Shak.

To form a fabric by interlacing yarn or thread; to weave by making knots or loops.

A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making. Hector, when he sees Andromache overwhelmed with terror, sends her for consolation to the loom and the distaff. Rambler.…

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.

A soft thin silk fabric with a weave like that of muslin.

An African weaver bird (Textor alector).

A quill or reed on which thread or yarn is wound; a bobbin; also, the wound yarn on a weaver's shuttle; also, the reel of a fishing rod. [Scot.]

To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid; to plat; as, to plait hair; to plait rope.

To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.[Obs.] "To sew and plight." Chaucer. A plighted garment of divers colors. Milton.