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entwist, intwist, v.|ɛn-, ɪnˈtwɪst|
[f. en-1 + twist v.]
trans. a. To clasp with a twist. b. To form into a twist. c. To twist in with.
α1590Shakes. Mids. N. iv. i. 48 So doth the woodbine, the sweet Honisuckle, Gently entwist. 1683A. Snape Anat. Horse i. x. (1686) 20 They [the guts] are gathered up and entwisted in the folds of the Mesentery. 1705Philips Blenheim 249 (Jod.) Th' unweeting prey Entwisted roars. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 68 ⁋5 Very few..have their thread of life entwisted with the chain of causes on which armies or nations are suspended. 1769Mrs. Montagu Lett. II. 114 Though the single thread will not bear handling, yet twisted, and entwisted..it is hard to be broken. 1837New Monthly Mag. XLIX. 399 Some had a maze of horsehair..entwisted round their polls.
β1649Roberts Clavis Bibl. iii. 63 Intwisted or woven together like a curious silken web. 1711J. Greenwood Eng. Gram. 282 When a twister a-twisting, will twist him a twist For the twisting of his twist, he three twines doth intwist. 1805Southey Madoc ii. xii, His untrimm'd hair, a long and loathsome mass, With cotton cords intwisted. 1864Neale Seaton. Poems 111 The endless lines Intwisted, and enlinked.
Hence enˈtwisted ppl. a.
a1800Cowper & Hayley tr. Andreini's Adam iv. i. The fatal sound of these entwisted pipes. a1813A. Wilson Ep. C. Orr Poet. Wks. (1846) 170 His noontide walks, his vine entwisted bowers. 1855Singleton Virgil II. 38 A pliant collar of entwisted gold. |