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A twist; a convolution. Typhon huge, ending in snaky twine. Milton.

Any plant which twines about a support.

To free from being entwined or twisted. Shelley.

To twine, twist, or wreathe together or round. [Written also intwine.] Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks. Shelley. Thy glorious household stuff did me entwine. Herbert.

A twining or twisting together or round; union. Bp. Hacket.

To be twined or twisted together; to become mutually involved or enfolded.

To twine or twist into, or together; to wreathe; as, a wreath of flowers intwined. [Written also entwine.]

The act of twinning, or the state of being intwined.

To disentangle. [Obs.]

To untwist; to separate, as that which is twined or twisted; to disentangle; to untie. It requires a long and powerful counter sympathy in a nation to untwine the ties of custom which bind a people to the established and the old. Sir W. Hamilton.

A rod with one serpent twined around it, thus differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two.

Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.

A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.

To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait. Braid your locks with rosy twine. Milton.

To surround and cling to; to entwine about. "Clasping ivy." Milton.

A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished.

e addition of acetone and pressed out into cords (of various diameters) resembling brown twine, which are dried and cut to length. A variety containing less nitroglycerin than the original is known as cordite M. D.

casing, as a gem with gold; to encircle; to inclose; to adorn. Enchased with a wanton ivy twine. Spenser. An precious stones, in studs of gold enchased, The shaggy velvet of his buskins graced. Mickle.

To interweave; to intertwine. [Obs.] Spenser.

To twist or wreathe round; to intwine. Shak.