1. To turn, twist, or be
twisted out of shape; especially, to be
twisted or
bent out of a
flat plane; as, a
board warps in seasoning or shrinking. "One of you
will prove a shrunk panel, and,
like green timber, warp, warp." (Shak) "They
clamp one
piece of
tree to the
end of other, to
hold it from casting, or warping." (Moxon)
2. To
turn or
incline from a straight, true, or proper rate; to deviate; to swerve. "There is our commission, From which we would not have you warp." (Shak)
3. To
fly with a bending or waving motion; to
turn and wave,
like a
flock of birds or insects. "A pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind." (Milton)
4. To
cast the
young prematurely; to slink; said of cattle, sheep, etc.
5. To
wind yarn
off bobbins for forming the
warp of a web; to
wind a
warp on a
warp beam.
1. To throw; hence, to send forth, or
throw out, as words; to utter.
2. To
turn or
twist out of shape; especially, to
twist or
bend out of a
flat plane by
contraction or otherwise. "The planks looked warped." (Coleridge) "Walter warped
his mouth at
this To something so
mock solemn, that I laughed." (Tennyson)
3. To
turn aside from the true direction; to
reason to
bend or incline; to pervert. "This
first avowed, nor
folly warped my mind." (Dryden) "I have no personal considerations to
warp me in
this controversy." (Addison) "We are divested of all those passions which cloud the intellects, and
warp the understandings, of men." (Southey)
4. To weave; to fabricate. "While doth he mischief warp." (Sternhold)
5. To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or another
fixed object.
6. To
cast prematurely, as young; said of cattle, sheep, etc.
7.
To allow the tide or another water in upon (lowlying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance.
8. To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns.
9. To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam.
Warped surface, a surface generated by a straight line moving so that no two of its consecutive positions shall be in the same plane.
Origin: OE. Warpen; fr. Icel. Varpa to throw, cast, varp a casting, fr. Verpa to throw; akin to Dan. Varpe to warp a nave, Sw. Varpa, AS. Weorpan to cast, OS. Werpan, OFries. Werpa, D. & LG. Werpen, G. Werfen, Goth. Wairpan; cf. Skr. Vrj to twist. Cf. Wrap.
1. The threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof.
2. A rope used in hauling or moving a vessel, generally with one end attached to an anchor, a post, or another fixed object; a towing line; a warping hawser.
3. A slimy stuff deposited on earth by tides, etc, by which a wealthy alluvial soil is formed.
4. A premature casting of young; said of cattle, sheep, etc.
5. Four; especially, four herrings; a cast. See Cast.
6. [From Warp, v] The state of being warped or twisted; as, the warp of a board. Warp beam, the roller on which the warp is wound in a loom. Warp fabric, fabric produced by warp knitting. Warp frame, or Warp-net frame, a car for making warp lace having a number of needles and employing a thread for every needle. Warp knitting, a kind of knitting in which a number of threads are interchained every with one or more contiguous threads on either side; also called warp weaving. Warp lace, or Warp net, lace having a warp crossed by weft threads.
Origin: AS. Wearp; akin to Icel. Varp a casting, throwing, Sw. Varp the draught of a net, Dan. Varp a towline, OHG. Warf warp, G. Werft. See Warp.
Source: Websters Vocabulary