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of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods. Knight.

To draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in weaving.

The interweaving of branches of trees. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The act of interweaving, or the state of being interwoven; that which is interwoven. "Knit in nice intertexture." Coleridge. Skirted thick with intertexture firm Of thorny boughs. Cowper.

The act of working in together; interweaving. 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.

ician, who died in 1834. Jacquard apparatus or arrangement, a device applied to looms for weaving figured goods, consisting of mechanism controlled by a chain of variously perforated cards, which cause the warp threads to be lifted in the proper succession for producing the required figure. -- Jacquard card, one of th…

A lump or loop formed in a thread, cord, rope. etc., as at the end, by tying or interweaving it upon itself.

In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.

ut independent volition. -- Lay race, that part of a lay on which the shuttle travels in weaving; -- called also shuttle race.

f 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.

t, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine.

The act of interweaving or tangling together so as to make a mat; the process of becoming matted.

The goddess of wisdom, of war, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving; -- identified with the Grecian Pallas Athene.

lminate, which is exploded by driving a slender needle, or pin, into it. -- Needle loom (Weaving), a loom in which the weft thread is carried through the shed by a long eye-pointed needle instead of by a shuttle. -- Needle ore (Min.), acicular bismuth; a sulphide of bismuth, lead, and copper occuring in acicular crys…

to be removed from the mold without injuring it. Pattern box, chain, or cylinder (Figure Weaving), devices, in a loom, for presenting several shuttles to the picker in the proper succession for forming the figure. -- Pattern card. (a) A set of samples on a card. (b) (Weaving) One of the perforated cards in a Jacquard…

Nice; careful. [Obs.] was too warm on picking work to dwell. Dryden. Picking peg. (Weaving) See Picker, n., 3.

To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait. "They had platted a crown of thorns." Matt. xxvii. 29.

To unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to plash; to interlock. "The pleached bower." Shak.

The act or process of weaving together, or interweaving; that which is woven together. H. Brooke.