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Knew.

A genus of climbing leguminous plants bearing long, pendulous clusters of pale bluish flowers.

Longing; wishful; desirous. Lifting up one of my sashes, I cast many a wistful, melancholy look towards the sea. Swift.

A small South American monkey; a marmoset. [Written also wistiti, and ouistiti.]

Attentively; observingly. [Obs.] Shak.

See Wishtonwish.

A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.

To twist or wreathe round; to intwine. Shak.

One who favors the practice of fallowing land. [R.] Sinclair.

To twist together one with another; to intertwine.

By intertwisting, or being intertwisted.

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

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 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.

Not known; unknown. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.