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ferous Chilian tree (Araucaria imbricata), the branches of which are so crowded and intertwisted "as to puzzle a monkey to climb." The edible nuts are over an inch long, and are called piñon by the Chilians.

for guiding a belt which transmits motion between shafts that are not parallel. -- Mule twist, cotton yarn in cops, as spun on a mule; -- in distinction from yarn spun on a throstle frame.

ic cetacean (Monodon monocerous), about twenty feet long. The male usually has one long, twisted, pointed canine tooth, or tusk projecting forward from the upper jaw like a horn, whence it is called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish, and unicorn whale. Sometimes two horns are developed, side by side.

To draw near; to approach. A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! And still it neared, and neared. Coleridge.

The halves of yarns in the unlaid end of a rope twisted for pointing or grafting.

A strong black chewing tobacco, usually in twisted plug form; negro head.

Wist not; knew not. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc.

of the opposite bastion may be discovered. Wilhelm. -- Oblique leaf. (Bot.) (a) A leaf twisted or inclined from the normal position. (b) A leaf having one half different from the other. -- Oblique line (Geom.), a line that, meeting or tending to meet another, makes oblique angles with it. -- Oblique motion (Mus.),…

A kind of double thrown silk of very fine texture, that is, silk twisted like a rope with different strands, so as to increase its strength.

See Wistit.

A kind of twisted chewing tobacco. The tobacco he usually cheweth, called pigtail. Swift.

To twist or twine, as hair in making fishing lines.

Consisting of strands twisted together in the ordinary way; as, a plain-laid rope. See Illust. of Cordage.

A disease of the hair (Plica polonica), in which it becomes twisted and matted together. The disease is of Polish origin, and is hence called also Polish plait. Dunglison.

A fold; a plait; a turn or twist, as of a cord. Arbuthnot.

eals. Pod auger, or pod bit, an auger or bit the channel of which is straight instead of twisted.

obefish. -- Porcupine grass (Bot.), a grass (Stipa spartea) with grains bearing a stout twisted awn, which, by coiling and uncoiling through changes in moisture, propels the sharp-pointed and barbellate grain into the wool and flesh of sheep. It is found from Illinois westward. See Illustration in Appendix. -- Porcup…

A kind of German biscuit or cake in the form of a twisted ring, salted on the outside.

An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band. A triumphant chariot made of carnation velvet, enriched withpurl and pearl. Sir P. Sidney .