To contort] to writhe;
to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
Hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to
pervert; as, to twist a passage cited from an author.
To distort, as a solid body, by turning one part
relatively to another about an axis passing through both; to subject to
torsion; as, to twist a shaft.
To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by
intertexture of parts.
To wind into; to insinuate; -- used reflexively;
as, avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
To unite by winding one thread, strand, or other
flexible substance, round another; to form by convolution, or winding
separate things round each other; as, to twist yarn or thread.
Hence, to form as if by winding one part around
another; to wreathe; to make up.
To form into a thread from many fine filaments;
as, to twist wool or cotton.
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