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v. t. [ Pref. en- + twine. Cf. Intwine. ] To twine, twist, or wreathe together or round. [ Written also intwine. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks. Shelley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy glorious household stuff did me entwine. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be twisted or twined. [ 1913 Webster ]

With whose imperial laurels might entwine no cypress. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A twining or twisting together or round; union. Bp. Hacket. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of intertwining, or the state of being intertwined. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To unite by twining one with another; to entangle; to interlace. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be twined or twisted together; to become mutually involved or enfolded. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Entwine. ] To twine or twist into, or together; to wreathe; as, a wreath of flowers intwined. [ Written also entwine. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be or to become intwined. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of intwining, or the state of being intwined. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To disentangle. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. twīn, properly, a twisted or double thread; akin to D. twijn, Icel. tvinni; from twi-. See Twice, and cf. Twin. ] 1. A twist; a convolution. [ 1913 Webster ]

Typhon huge, ending in snaky twine. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

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; a small cord or string. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of twining or winding round. J. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

Twine reeler, a kind of machine for twisting twine; a kind of mule, or spinning machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Twined p. pr. & vb. n. Twining. ] [ OE. twinen, fr. AS. twīn a twisted thread; akin to D. twijnen to twine, Icel. & Sw. tvinna, Dan. tvinde. See Twine, n. ] 1. To twist together; to form by twisting or winding of threads; to wreathe; as, fine twined linen. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let me twine
Mine arms about that body. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To wind about; to embrace; to entwine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To change the direction of. [ Obs. ] Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To mingle; to mix. [ Obs. ] Crashaw. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander. [ 1913 Webster ]

As rivers, though they bend and twine,
Still to the sea their course incline. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To turn round; to revolve. [ Obs. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally; as, many plants twine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Any plant which twines about a support. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + twine. ] To untwist; to separate, as that which is twined or twisted; to disentangle; to untie. [ 1913 Webster ]

It requires a long and powerful counter sympathy in a nation to untwine the ties of custom which bind a people to the established and the old. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]