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or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league; as, the weavers have formed a union; trades unions have become very numerous; the United States of America are often called the Union. A. Hamilton.

To twist; to weave. [R.] Some English wool, vexed in a Belgian loom. Dryden.

A fuller of cloth. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] She cursed the weaver and the walker The cloth that had wrought. Percy's Reliques.

To weave; to fabricate. [R. & Poetic.] Nares. While doth he mischief warp. Sternhold.

The art or occupation of preparing warp or webs for the weaver. Craig. Warping bank, a bank of earth raised round a field to retain water let in for the purpose of enriching land. Craig. -- Warping hook, a hook used by rope makers for hanging the yarn on, when warping it into hauls for tarring. -- Warping mill, a mac…

To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.

The act of one who, or that which, weaves; the act or art of forming cloth in a loom by the union or intertexture of threads.

A weaver. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who forms webs; a weaver; a webster. [Obs.]

A weaver; originally, a female weaver. [Obs.] Brathwait.

anner, but they are also able to dive and swim rapidly. The larva is aquatic. Called also weaver, whirlwig, and whirlwig beetle.

e night tide as well as by the day. -- To work in, to insert, introduce, mingle, or interweave by labor or skill. -- To work into, to force, urge, or insinuate into; as, to work one's self into favor or confidence. -- To work off, to remove gradually, as by labor, or a gradual process; as, beer works off impurities…

p. pr. & rare vb. n. of Weave.

p. p. of Weave. Woven paper, or Wove paper, writing paper having an even, uniform surface, without watermarks.

en years. Macaulay. But gather all thy powers, And wreak them on the verse that thou dost weave. Bryant.