单词 | twining |
释义 | twiningn. The action of twine v.1; twisting, spinning, winding, embracing, writhing. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [noun] throwingOE wringinga1375 twining1398 wrenching1398 wresting1398 writhing?a1400 wrying1566 wreathing1571 convolution1597 twinding1602 contortion1611 distorquement1628 distortion1718 twisting1725 quirling1754 circumgyration1843 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvii. cxlii[i]. (Bodl.) lf. 227 b/1 Smal [weþies]..beþ made stronge wiþ..windinge as þrede is wt twynynge. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 505/1 Twynynge (or wyn(d)ynge, of threde..), tortura. 1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1580) 101 A priuie twinyng, or close crepyng in, to win fauour.., called insinuation. a1641 J. Webster & T. Heywood Appius & Virginia (1654) iv. 51 The rude twinings of a leacherous Judge. a1703 J. Pomfret Poet. Wks. (1833) 21 Love to one centre every twining brought. 1841 R. W. Emerson Man Reformer in Lect. in Wks. (1906) II. 238 Inextricable seem to be the twinings and tendrils of this evil. 1872 G. B. Cheever Lect. Pilgrim's Progress ii. 44 The twinings and wrestlings, the strivings and agonies of Bunyan's spirit. 1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 772 The Twining of Climbing Plants... Twining is a consequence of unequal growth, of a revolving nutation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022). twiningadj. That twines, in various senses; twisting, winding, coiling, writhing, etc.; spec. of a plant: growing spirally round a support. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adjective] rollingc1400 whorling1578 wreathing1584 twininga1593 wreathy1644 volvulous1657 coiling1718 vining1806 swirling1807 convolutionary1903 a1593 C. Marlowe in Eng. Parnassus (1600) 480 The Eglantine and Rose..As kind companions in one union grows, Folding their twining armes. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 8 The twining tendrils of the Vine. 1669 W. Penn No Cross, No Crown vii. §4 A Crooked, Twining, Twisting Serpent. 1735 W. Somervile Chace iv. 153 Spare not thou The twining whip, but ply his bleeding Sides. 1824 L.-M. Hawkins Annaline II. 213 The thick forest [was] decorated with twining plants. 1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iii. 107 If such stems twist round other bodies in a spiral manner they are said to be twining. Derivatives ˈtwiningly adv. in a twining manner. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adverb] verticularly1657 twiningly1731 voluminously1745 wreathingly1821 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 5) Twiningly, twistingly. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1398adj.a1593 |
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