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Speeder :: Speeder (n.) A machine for drawing and twisting slivers to form rovings.

Wreath :: Wreath (n.) An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest (see Illust. of Crest). It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the arms..

Cordelle :: Cordelle (n.) A twisted cord; a tassel.

Candle :: Candle (n.) A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to furnish light..

Struggle :: Struggle (v. i.) To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body..

Water-laid :: Water-laid (a.) Having a left-hand twist; -- said of cordage; as, a water-laid, or left-hand, rope..

Unwreathe :: Unwreathe (v. t.) To untwist, uncoil, or untwine, as anything wreathed..

Elastic :: Elastic (a.) Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic..

Rove :: Rove (n.) A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving..

Torsibillty :: Torsibillty (n.) The tendency, as of a rope, to untwist after being twisted..

Twist :: Twist (v. t.) To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

Wick :: Wick (n.) A bundle of fibers, or a loosely twisted or braided cord, tape, or tube, usually made of soft spun cotton threads, which by capillary attraction draws up a steady supply of the oil in lamps, the melted tallow or wax in candles, or other material used for illumination, in small successive portions, to be burned..

Wrong :: Wrong (a.) Twisted; wry; as, a wrong nose..

Untwist :: Untwist (v. t.) To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine..

Strophes :: Strophanthus (n.) A genus of tropical apocynaceous shrubs having singularly twisted flowers. One species (Strophanthus hispidus) is used medicinally as a cardiac sedative and stimulant.

Wreathy :: Wreathy (a.) Wreathed; twisted; curled; spiral; also, full of wreaths..

Roving :: Roving (n.) A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a rove. See 2d Rove, 2..

Twisted :: Twisted (a.) Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted..

Wreathe :: Wreathe (n.) To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn.

Warp :: Warp (v.) The state of being warped or twisted; as, the warp of a board..

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