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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.

To twist or wreathe round; to intwine. Shak.

To twist together one with another; to intertwine.

By intertwisting, or being intertwisted.

To twist into or together; to interweave. [Written also entwist.]

To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis.

Yarn made by the throstle, or water frame.

The twisting of an artery with a needle to arrest hemorrhage.

Twisted; distorted; awry. [R.] Halliwell.

s one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge.

Turned or twisted toward one side; not in a straight or true direction, or position; out of the right course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry. "Your crown's awry." Shak. Blows them transverse, ten thousand leagues awry. Into the devious air. Milton.

t to the two circles shall be equal to each other. -- Spiral axis (Arch.), the axis of a twisted column drawn spirally in order to trace the circumvolutions without. -- Axis of abscissas and Axis of ordinates. See Abscissa.

r of small timber. -- Balloon net, a variety of woven lace in which the weft threads are twisted in a peculiar manner around the warp.

itimacy. See Baton. -- Bar tracery (Arch.), ornamental stonework resembling bars of iron twisted into the forms required. -- Blank bar (Law). See Blank. -- Case at bar (Law), a case presently before the court; a case under argument. -- In bar of, as a sufficient reason against; to prevent. -- Matter in bar, or Def…

ith a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire. Barbed wire, a wire, or a strand of twisted wires, armed with barbs or sharp points. It is used for fences.