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the qualities of a shrew; having a scolding disposition; froward; peevish. My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours. Shak. -- Shrew"ish*ly, adv. -- Shrew"ish*ness, n.

Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle.

On or toward one side; laterally; sideways. I saw them mask their awful glance Sidewise meek in gossamer lids. Emerson.

Sinewy. [Obs.] Holinshed.

In an inclined direction; obliquely; slopingly.

Obliquely. [Obs.] Carew.

Suiting a stew, or brothel. Bp. Hall.

In a such a manner; so.

In the direction of the sun's apparent motion, or from the east southward and westward, and so around the circle; also, in the same direction as the movement of the hands of a watch lying face upward.

To flourish, so as to make the sound swish. Coleridge.

A native or inhabitant of Switzerland; a Switzer; the people of Switzerland.

In a way of a tale or story.

Having the qualities of tallow.

To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve. Twist it into a serpentine form. Pope.

imp. of Twist. Chaucer.

Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted. Twisted curve (Geom.), a curve of double curvature. See Plane curve, under Curve. -- Twisted surface (Geom.), a surface described by a straight line moving according to any law whatever, yet so that the consecutive positions of the line shall not be…

One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.

Crooked; tortuous; hence, perverse; unfair; dishonest. [Slang, U. S.] Bartlett.

a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. (Kinematics) See under Pair, n., 7.

Unrighteous. [Obs.] Wyclif. -- Un*right"wise`ly, adv. [Obs.]