Word Meanings - ATWIRL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Twisted; distorted; awry. Halliwell.

Related words: (words related to ATWIRL)

• TWISTING
  a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7.
• DISTORTIVE
  Causing distortion.
• TWISTER
  A girder. Craig. (more info) 1. One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving. 2. The instrument used in twisting, or making twists. He, twirling his twister,
• DISTORTION
  An unnatural deviation of shape or position of any part of the body producing visible deformity. (more info) 1. The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or
• DISTORT
  Distorted; misshapen. Her face was ugly and her mouth distort. Spenser.
• TWIST
  twi- two; akin to D. twist a quarrel, dissension, G. zwist, Dan. & Sw. tvist, Icel. twistr the deuce in cards, tvistr distressed. See 1. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve. Twist it into a serpentine form. Pope.
• DISTORTER
  One who, or that which, distorts.
• TWISTED
  Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted. Twisted curve , a curve of double curvature. See Plane curve, under Curve. -- Twisted surface , a surface described by a straight line moving according to any law whatever, yet
• TWISTE
  imp. of Twist. Chaucer.
• UNTWIST
  1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton.
• INTERTWIST
  To twist together one with another; to intertwine.
• INTERTWISTINGLY
  By intertwisting, or being intertwisted.
• WATER TU TWIST
  Yarn made by the throstle, or water frame.
• ENTWIST
  To twist or wreathe round; to intwine. Shak.