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esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise. The planks looked warped. Coleridge. Walter warped his mouth at this To something so mock solemn, that I laughed. Tennyson.

A kind of knitting in which a number of threads are interchained each with one or more contiguous threads on either side.

The act of warping; also, a charge per ton made on shipping in some harbors.

The route taken by a party of Indians going on a warlike expedition. Schoolcraft. On the warpath, on a hostile expedition; hence, colloquially, about to attack a person or measure.

One who, or that which, warps or twists out of shape.

The act or process of one who, or that which, warps.

Valor tried by war.

A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or warped along; -- so called because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object.

See Mole the animal. Spenser.

See Moldwarp.

A rope passing through a block, used in managing or dragging a trawlnet.

To restore from a warped state; to cause to be linger warped.

Not warped; hence, not biased; impartial.

Among weaves, yarn for the warp. Hence, abb wool is wool for the abb.

h the age follows. J. H. Newman. Lo! where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. C. Sprague.

riety of woven lace in which the weft threads are twisted in a peculiar manner around the warp.

A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam.

A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth. Knight.

the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc.

may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc.