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writhed, ppl. a.|raɪðd|
[f. writhe v.1 + -ed1. Cf. wreathed ppl. a.]
1. That has undergone writhing, contortion, or twisting; twisted.
1578Lyte Dodoens vi. lxxxiii. 764 The stem [of the smaller cedar] is croked or writhed. 1581T. Howell Deuises H ij, Wrythed wrinckles [shall] peere on blemisht browe. 1590P. Barrough Meth. Physick i. xliv. (1596) 67 A writhed linnen cloth. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. 50 The writhed and wrested strings of a brake. 1756P. Browne Jamaica (1789) 396 The angular and variously writhed Worm-tube.
transf.1562Cooper Answ. Defence Truth 84 All, that here you haue vttered, be nothinge but wrythed coniectures.
b. Of the features, etc.: Subjected to contortion or writhing; contorted, wry.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Laide grimace, a writhed mouth. 1605Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. Law 96 Snuffing with a wrythed nose the Amber. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 150 They have a black and wrythed Face. 1802J. Baillie 2nd Pt. Ethwald ii. ii, There be some Whose writhed features..do stare upon you. 1830Tennyson ‘Clear-headed friend’ iii, Those writhed limbs of lightning speed. 1868Kinglake Crimea IV. 292 A breed of the human race whose numberless cages of teeth stared out..from between the writhed lips.
2. Fashioned by or as by twisting or convolution.
1552Huloet, Writhed, or wynded one in another as a cord or rope is lincke to lincke, versatilis. 1565Cooper Thesaurus, Funes intorti, writhed cordes. 1802Leyden Mermaid i, How softly mourns the writhed shell Of Jura's shore, its parent sea! 1858Skyring Builders' Prices 55 Every inch opening in the writhed rails.
b. Of pillars, etc.: = wreathed ppl. a. 3 a.
1825Scott Talism. xxvii, The fantastic forms of writhed pillars. 1849Ruskin Sev. Lamps iii. 92 The dark..porches and writhed pillars of Verona.
Hence ˈwrithedly adv., -ness. rare.
1565Cooper Thesaurus, Contorte,..frowardly: obscurely: intricately: writhedly. 1755Scott, Contorteousness, writhedness. |