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.
| α 1590 Shakes. Mids. N. iv. i. 48 So doth the woodbine, the sweet Honisuckle, Gently entwist. 1683 A. Snape Anat. Horse i. x. (1686) 20 They [the guts] are gathered up and entwisted in the folds of the Mesentery. 1705 Philips Blenheim 249 (Jod.) Th' unweeting prey Entwisted roars. 1750 Johnson Rambler No. 68 ¶5 Very few..have their thread of life entwisted with the chain of causes on which armies or nations are suspended. 1769 Mrs. Montagu Lett. II. 114 Though the single thread will not bear handling, yet twisted, and entwisted..it is hard to be broken. 1837 New Monthly Mag. XLIX. 399 Some had a maze of horsehair..entwisted round their polls. |
| β 1649 Roberts Clavis Bibl. iii. 63 Intwisted or woven together like a curious silken web. 1711 J. 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. 1805 Southey Madoc ii. xii, His untrimm'd hair, a long and loathsome mass, With cotton cords intwisted. 1864 Neale Seaton. Poems 111 The endless lines Intwisted, and enlinked. |
Hence
enˈtwisted ppl. a.| a 1800 Cowper & Hayley tr. Andreini's Adam iv. i. The fatal sound of these entwisted pipes. a 1813 A. Wilson Ep. C. Orr Poet. Wks. (1846) 170 His noontide walks, his vine entwisted bowers. 1855 Singleton Virgil II. 38 A pliant collar of entwisted gold. |