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A cap of paper twisted at the end, used by retailers to inclose small wares. Cotgrave.

A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half.

A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word. Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles. Milton.

A bend or turn; a twist; a crinkle.

A thin, crimped stuff, made of raw silk gummed and twisted on the mill. Black crape is much used for mourning garments, also for the dress of some clergymen. A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. Pope. Crape myrtle (Bot.), a very ornamental shrub (Lagerströmia Indica) from the East Indies, often planted in the Sou…

Worsted yarn,, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.

A twist or bend; a turn; a whimsey. [Colloq.] Hudibras.

A twist; a whimsey or whim. [Colloq.]

Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted.

To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist. [Archaic] There is no one thing that crooks youth more than such unlawfull games. Ascham. What soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends. Bacon.

Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed. "Crooked paths." Locke. he is deformed, crooked, old, and sere. Shak.

A kind of sweet cake cut in strips and curled or twisted, and fried crisp in boiling fat. [Also written kruller.]

The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.

To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair. But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid. Cascoigne.

he other points of the curve. Any other curve is called a curve of double curvature, or a twisted curve.

ted appearance of watering, and proverbial for excellence. -- Damascus iron, or Damascus twist, metal formed of thin bars or wires of iron and steel elaborately twisted and welded together; used for making gun barrels, etc., of high quality, in which the surface, when polished and acted upon by acid, has a damasc appe…

An unfolding, untwisting, or unplaiting. [Obs.] W. Montagu.

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

To free from being entwined or twisted. Shelley.

To untwist; to uncurl; to unplat. [Obs.] Hakewill.