Word Meanings - INTWINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To twine or twist into, or together; to wreathe; as, a wreath of flowers intwined.

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• 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.
• 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
  twi- two; akin to D. twist a quarrel, dissension, G. zwist, Dan. & Sw. tvist, Icel. twistr the deuce in cards, tvistr distressed. See 1. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve. Twist it into a serpentine form. Pope.
• TWINER
  Any plant which twines about a support.
• INTWINE
  To twine or twist into, or together; to wreathe; as, a wreath of flowers intwined.
• TOGETHER
  togædre, togadere; to to + gador together. *29. See To, prep., and 1. In company or association with respect to place or time; as, to live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town. Soldiers can
• WREATHEN
  Twisted; made into a wreath. "Wreathen work of pure gold." Ex. xxviii. 22.
• TWISTED
  Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted. Twisted curve , a curve of double curvature. See Plane curve, under Curve. -- Twisted surface , a surface described by a straight line moving according to any law whatever, yet
• TWINE
  1. A twist; a convolution. Typhon huge, ending in snaky twine. Milton. 2. A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like;
• TWISTE
  imp. of Twist. Chaucer.
• WREATHY
  Wreathed; twisted; curled; spiral; also, full of wreaths. "Wreathy spires, and cochleary turnings about." Sir T. Browne.
• WREATH
  An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest . It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the arms. (more info) 1. Something twisted,
• INTWINEMENT
  The act of twinning, or the state of being intwined.
• 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.
• ENTWINEMENT
  A twining or twisting together or round; union. Bp. Hacket.
• INTERWREATHE
  To weave into a wreath; to intertwine. Lovelace.
• INWREATHE
  Resplendent locks, inwreathed with beams. Milton.
• INTERTWINE
  To unite by twining one with another; to entangle; to interlace. Milton.
• UPWREATH
  To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke. Longfellow.
• ALTOGETHER
  1. All together; conjointly. Altogether they wenChaucer. 2. Without exception; wholly; completely. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix. 5.
• DISENTWINE
  To free from being entwined or twisted. Shelley.
• INTERTWISTINGLY
  By intertwisting, or being intertwisted.