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Winding around something; twisting; embracing; climbing by winding about a support; as, the hop is a twinning plant.

By intertwining or being intertwined.

Any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a bine.

The winding or twining stem of a hop vine or other climbing plant.

A plait, band, or narrow fabric formed by intertwining or weaving together different strands. A braid of hair composed of two different colors twined together. Scott.

To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrills, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.

To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast, especially by twining round or embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its support; -- usually followed by to or together. And what hath life for thee That thou shouldst cling to it thus Mrs. Hemans.

on flower (Passiflora Murucuja); also, its fruit. -- Dutchman's pipe (Bot.), an American twining shrub (Aristolochia Sipho). Its flowers have their calyx tubes curved like a tobacco pipe.

he great endearments of prudent and temperate speech." Jer. Taylor. Her first endearments twining round the soul. Thomson.

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

A leguminous, twining plant (Apios tuberosa), producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste.

Running in the same direction; -- said of stems twining round a support, or of the spiral succession of leaves on stems and their branches.

A climbing plant (Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops).

To unite by twining one with another; to entangle; to interlace. Milton.

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

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

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

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

having a milky juice. -- Milk pea (Bot.), a genus (Galactia) of leguminous and, usually, twining plants. -- Milk sickness (Med.), a peculiar malignant disease, occurring in some parts of the Western United States, and affecting certain kinds of farm stock (esp. cows), and persons who make use of the meat or dairy pro…

The cutting or bending and intertwining the branches of small trees, as in hedges.