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

To twist together one with another; to intertwine.

To weave together; to intermix or unite in texture or construction; to intertwine; as, threads of silk and cotton interwoven. Under the hospitable covert nigh Of trees thick interwoven. Milton.

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

The bending or twining of any part of a plant toward one side or the other, or in any direction from the vertical.

To twist in and out; to twine; to wreathe; to wind; to wring. Pope.

To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine. Some of serpent kind . . . involved Their snaky folds. 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.

, and Gray.] (Bot.) A genus of twining plants with showy monopetalous flowers, including the morning-glory, the sweet potato, and the cypress vine.

th a pretty, white, solitary blossom, and deeply two-cleft leaves (Jeffersonia diphylla); twinleaf.

Twin; paired; -- said of various objects made or formed in pairs, as a binocular opera glass, a pair of gimmal rings, etc.

ike fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. Shak. Rose, rose and clematis, Trail and twine and clasp and kiss. Tennyson. Kissing comfit, a perfumed sugarplum to sweeten the breath. [Obs or Prov. End.] Shak.

an East Indian name for several twining leguminous plants related to the bean, but commonly applied to the hyacinth bean (Delichos Lablab).

Twinkling or gleaming; fickering. "The lambent purity of the stars." W. Irving.

The twin flower which grows in cold northern climates.

A genus of ferns with twining or climbing fronds, bearing stalked and variously-lobed divisions in pairs.

A twin crystal.

Having a twin structure. See Twin, a.

A coarse lace made of twine, used especially in decorating furniture.

A paper or pasteboard box or shell, wound about with strong twine, filled with an explosive, and ignited with a fuse, -- used to make a noise like a cannon. [Written also maroon.]