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Of or pertaining to texture.

The art or process of weaving; texture. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

tructure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue.

The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper.

To pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of textures; as, liquor may transude through leather or wood.

To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts. "Longing to twist bays with that ivy." Waller. There are pillars of smoke twisted about wreaths of flame. T. Burnet.

iform in their ceremonies. Hooker. Uniform matter, that which is all of the same kind and texture; homogenous matter. -- Uniform motion, the motion of a body when it passes over equal spaces in equal times; equable motion. Hutton.

ally treated, as with metallic chlorides, so as to form a substance resembling ebonite in texture, hardness, etc. Knight. -- Vulcanized rubber, India rubber, vulcanized.

Any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments; esp., sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose.

A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth. Thou 'rt rougher far, And of a coarser wale, fuller of pride. Beau & Fl.

Having the surface altered in color, texture, or composition, or the edges rounded off by exposure to the elements.

The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.

To unite, as threads of any kind, in such a manner as to form a texture; to entwine or interlace into a fabric; as, to weave wool, silk, etc.; hence, to unite by close connection or intermixture; to unite intimately. This weaves itself, perforce, into my business. Shak. That in their green shops weave the smooth-haired…

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

That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp., something woven in a loom. Penelope, for her Ulysses' sake, Devised a web her wooers to deceive. Spenser. Not web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, or penalty of exile. Bancroft.

Texture. [Obs.] Grew.

y a strumous inflammation of the synovial membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind. -- White tombac. See Tombac. -- White trout (Zoöl.), the white weakfish, or silver squeteague (Cynoscion n…

e, a sharpening and polishing stone used by cutlers; also, a finishing grindstone of fine texture.

A texture of osiers, twigs, or rods; articles made of such a texture.

d and designated by the abbreviations B. W.G. and A. W.G. respectively. -- Wire gauze, a texture of finely interwoven wire, resembling gauze. -- Wire grass (Bot.), either of the two common grasses Eleusine Indica, valuable for hay and pasture, and Poa compressa, or blue grass. See Blue grass. -- Wire grub (Zoöl.), a…