Word Meanings - BRAID - Book Publishers vocabulary database
and fro, to weave; akin. to Icel. breg, D. breiden to knit, OS. 1. 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. 2. To mingle, or to bring
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and fro, to weave; akin. to Icel. breg, D. breiden to knit, OS. 1. 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. 2. To mingle, or to bring to a uniformly soft consistence, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in some culinary operations. 3. To reproach. See Upbraid. Shak.
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- INTERLACE
To unite, as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave. Severed into stripes That interlaced each other. Cowper. The epic way is every where interlaced with dialogue. Dryden. Interlacing arches - UNITERABLE
Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne. - ENTWINEMENT
A twining or twisting together or round; union. Bp. Hacket. - WREATHLESS
Destitute of a wreath. - WREATHE
1. To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn. And from so heavy sight his head did wreathe. Spenser. 2. To twist; to convolve; to wind one about another; to entwine. The nods and smiles of recognition into which this singular - TWISTING
a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7. - BRAID
and fro, to weave; akin. to Icel. breg, D. breiden to knit, OS. 1. 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. 2. To mingle, or to bring - INTERLACEMENT
The act of interlacing, or the state of being interlaced; also, that which is interlaced. - WREATH-SHELL
A marine shell of the genus Turbo. See Turbo. - TWISTER
A girder. Craig. (more info) 1. One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving. 2. The instrument used in twisting, or making twists. He, twirling his twister, - TWIST
1. To be contorted; to writhe; to be distorted by torsion; to be united by winding round each other; to be or become twisted; as, some strands will twist more easily than others. 2. To follow a helical or spiral course; to be in the form - EMBRACEOR
One guilty of embracery. - EMBRACERY
An attempt to influence a court, jury, etc., corruptly, by promises, entreaties, money, entertainments, threats, or other improper inducements. - MEANDER
Fretwork. See Fret. (more info) 1. A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries. Sir M. Hale. While lingering rivers in meanders glide. Sir R. Blackmore. 2. A tortuous or intricate movement. - TWINER
Any plant which twines about a support. - BRAIDING
1. The act of making or using braids. 2. Braids, collectively; trimming. A gentleman enveloped in mustachios, whiskers, fur collars, and braiding. Thackeray. - UNITEDLY
In an united manner. Dryden. - UNITE
1. To become one; to be cemented or consolidated; to combine, as by adhesion or mixture; to coalesce; to grow together. 2. To join in an act; to concur; to act in concert; as, all parties united in signing the petition. - PLAITED
Folded; doubled over; braided; figuratively, involved; intricate; artful. Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides. Shak. - PLAIT
of plicare to fold, akin to plectere to plait. See Ply, and cf. Plat 1. A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait. The plaits and foldings of the drapery. Addison. 2. A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat. Polish plait. Same - INTERTWIST
To twist together one with another; to intertwine. - UNTWIST
1. 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. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton. - INTWINE
To twine or twist into, or together; to wreathe; as, a wreath of flowers intwined. - INTERWREATHE
To weave into a wreath; to intertwine. Lovelace. - INWREATHE
Resplendent locks, inwreathed with beams. Milton. - ALUNITE
Alum stone. - IMBRAID
See EMBRAID - UNBRAID
To separate the strands of; to undo, as a braid; to unravel; to disentangle. - INTERTWINE
To unite by twining one with another; to entangle; to interlace. Milton.