Word Meanings - INTRINSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tightly drawn; or intricate. Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain, Which are too intrinse to unloose. Shak.

Related words: (words related to INTRINSE)

• ATWAIN
  In twain; asunder. "Cuts atwain the knots." Tennyson.
• UNLOOSE
  To make loose; to loosen; to set free. Shak.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• UNLOOSEN
  To loosen; to unloose.
• DRAWN
  See PATTERN
• INTRICATELY
  In an intricate manner.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• INTRICATENESS
  The state or quality of being intricate; intricacy.
• INTRINSE
  Tightly drawn; or intricate. Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain, Which are too intrinse to unloose. Shak.
• TIGHTLY
  In a tight manner; closely; nearly.
• DRAWNET
  A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet. Crabb.
• INTRICATE
  Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc. His style was fit to convey the most intricate business to the understanding with the utmost
• INDRAWN
  Drawn in.
• CUBDRAWN
  Sucked by cubs. This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch. Shak.
• LONG-DRAWN
  Extended to a great length. The cicadæ hushed their long-drawn, ear-splitting strains. G. W. Cable.
• DISINTRICATE
  To disentangle. "To disintricate the question." Sir W. Hamilton.
• SOLID-DRAWN
  Drawn out from a heated solid bar, as by a process of spiral rolling which first hollows the bar and then expands the cavity by forcing the bar over a pointed mandrel fixed in front of the rolls; - - said of a weldless tube.
• AIR-DRAWN
  Drawn in air; imaginary. This is the air-drawn dagger. Shak.
• FINEDRAWN
  Drawn out with too much subtilty; overnice; as, finedrawn speculations.