woven, ppl. a.
(ˈwəʊv(ə)n)
Also 6 wouen, wovyn; Sc. 5 wowen, 6 wolvin, 7 wolfin.
[pa. pple. of weave v.1]
1. That has undergone the process of weaving; formed or fabricated by weaving.
| c 1470 Henry Wallace i. 242 A wowen quhyt hatt scho brassit on with all. 1560 B. Googe tr. Palingenius' Zodiac ii. (1561) C iiij, The wouen webbe of flaxe. 1575 in Archaeologia XXX. 19 Item v paire of woven shets. 1612 Sc. Bk. Rates in Halyburton's Ledger (1867) 293 Busteanis or woven tweill stuffe. 1727 De Foe Eng. Tradesm. (1732) I. 332 Her Stockings from Tewskbury, if ordinary; from Leicester, if woven. 1758 Whitehead Verses to People Eng. 4 And Navies powerful to display Their woven wings to every wind. 1819 Shelley Cenci v. ii. 27 You clothed me in a robe of woven gold. 1833 Mrs. Browning Prometh. Bound 834 Where Scythia's shepherd peoples dwell aloft, Perched in wheeled wagons under woven roofs. 1883 W. D. Curzon Manuf. Industries Worcs. 80 Travelling endless woven wire sieves. |
| fig. 1894 J. Davidson Ballads & Songs 33 We set about To bring the world within the woven spell. |
2. Formed by interlacing or intertwining after the manner of weaving.
| 1590 Spenser F.Q. i. v. 4 Soone after comes the cruell Sarazin, In wouen maile all armed warily. 1596 Edw. III, iii. v. 31 Whilst he, Lion like, Intangled in the net of their assaults, Frantiquely wrends, and byt(e)s the wouen toyle. 1628 May Virg. Georg. ii. 49 Take a thick-woven Osiar colander, Through which the pressed wines are strained clear. 1658 Rowland tr. Moufet's Theat. Ins. 901 They live here longer..then in their artificial woven Hives. 1793 Wordsw. Evening Walk 240 Long grass and willows form the woven wall. 1820 Shelley Witch Atl. xxxiii, Woven tracery ran..o'er The solid rind. 1892 W. B. Yeats in 1st Bk. Rhymers' Club 7 Under the woven roofs of..boughs. |
| fig. 1644 Vicars God in Mount 6 A pernicious woven-knot of malignant active spirits. 1815 Shelley Alastor 48 Voice of living beings, and woven hymns Of night and day. 1891 Cayley Math. Papers (1897) XIII. 121 The groups thus obtained, with substitutions which interchange the two sets of letters, are said to be ‘woven’ groups. |
| Comb. 1885 F. Caddy Footsteps Jeanne D'Arc 12 Horses feed in the wide, woven-fenced fields. 1904 Hardy Dynasts I. 5 O woven-winged squadrons of Toulon..draw westward Ere Nelson be near! |
3. Interlaced, intertwined; wreathed.
| 1815 Shelley Alastor 459 A well..Images all the woven boughs above. 1833 Tennyson Miller's Dau. 232 The kiss, The woven arms, seem but to be Weak symbols of the settled bliss..I have found in thee. 1849 Lytton K. Arthur iii. cx, Fair was her prison, walled with woven flowers. |
† 4. Of paper:
= wove ppl. a. 2.
Obs.| 1797 Brit. Critic IX. 72 We have volumes every day, on woven-paper,..in which war is execrated. |