Word Meanings - CONTORTUPLICATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Plaited lengthwise and twisted in addition, as the bud of the morning-glory. Gray.

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• PLAIT
  of plicare to fold, akin to plectere to plait. See Ply, and cf. Plat 1. A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait. The plaits and foldings of the drapery. Addison. 2. A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat. Polish plait. Same
• ADDITION
  That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers. (more info) 1. The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. "This endless addition or addibility of numbers." Locke. 2. Anything added; increase;
• MORNE
  Of or pertaining to the morn; morning. "White as morne milk." Chaucer.
• ADDITIONALLY
  By way of addition.
• TWISTING
  a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7.
• 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,
• MORNING-GLORY
  A climbing plant having handsome, funnel- shaped flowers, usually red, pink, purple, white, or variegated, sometimes pale blue. See Dextrorsal.
• ADDITIONAL
  Added; supplemental; in the way of an addition.
• 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.
• PLAITED
  Folded; doubled over; braided; figuratively, involved; intricate; artful. Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides. Shak.
• MORNINGTIDE
  Morning time.
• 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
• MORNWARD
  Towards the morn. And mornward now the starry hands move on. Lowell.
• PLAITER
  One who, or that which, plaits.
• ADDITIONARY
  Additional. Herbert.
• TWISTE
  imp. of Twist. Chaucer.
• MORNING
  Pertaining to the first part or early part of the day; being in the early part of the day; as, morning dew; morning light; morning service. She looks as clear As morning roses newly washed with dew. Shak. Morning gown, a gown worn in the morning
• GLORY
  1. Praise, honor, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; honorable fame; renown. Glory to God in the highest. Luke ii. 14. Spread his glory through all countries wide. Spenser. 2. That quality
• MORN
  The first part of the day; the morning; -- used chiefly in poetry. From morn To noun he fell, from noon to dewy eve. Milton. (more info) OS. morgan, G. morgen, Icel. morginn, morgunn, Sw. morgon, Dan.
• 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.
• CROMORNA
  A certain reed stop in the organ, of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe. (more info) G. krummhorn crooked horn, cornet, an organ pipe turned like a
• SURADDITION
  Something added or appended, as to a name. Shak.
• TOMORN
  To-morrow. Chaucer.
• VAINGLORY
  Excessive vanity excited by one's own performances; empty pride; undue elation of mind; vain show; boastfulness. He had nothing of vainglory. Bacon. The man's undone forever; for if Hector break not his neck i' the combat, he'll break't himself
• LENGTHWAYS; LENGTHWISE
  In the direction of the length; in a longitudinal direction.
• A-MORNINGS
  In the morning; every morning. And have such pleasant walks into the woods A-mornings. J. Fletcher.
• INTERTWISTINGLY
  By intertwisting, or being intertwisted.
• SUPERADDITION
  The act of adding something in excess or something extraneous; also, something which is added in excess or extraneously. This superaddition is nothing but fat. Arbuthnot.