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   Warp , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Warped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Warping.] [OE. warpen; fr. Icel. varpa to throw, cast, varp a casting, fr. verpa to throw; akin to Dan. varpe to warp a ship, Sw. varpa, AS. weorpan to cast, OS. werpan, OFries. werpa, D. & LG. werpen, G. werfen, Goth. waírpan; cf. Skr. vṛj to twist. √144. Cf. Wrap.]
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   To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter. [Obs.]
   Piers Plowman.
   
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   To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise.
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   The planks looked warped.
   Coleridge.
   
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   Walter warped his mouth at this
   To something so mock solemn, that I laughed.
   Tennyson.
   
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   To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert.
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   This first avowed, nor folly warped my mind.
   Dryden.
   
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   I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy.
   Addison.
   
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   We are divested of all those passions which cloud the intellects, and warp the understandings, of men.
   Southey.
   
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   To weave; to fabricate. [R. & Poetic.]
   Nares.
   
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   While doth he mischief warp.
   Sternhold.
   
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   (Naut.) To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object.
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   To cast prematurely, as young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc. [Prov. Eng.]
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   (Agric.) To let the tide or other water in upon (lowlying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance. [Prov. Eng.]
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   (Rope Making) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns.
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   (Weaving) To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam.
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   (Aeronautics) To twist the end surfaces of (an aerocurve in an airfoil) in order to restore or maintain equilibrium.
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   Warped surface (Geom.), a surface generated by a straight line moving so that no two of its consecutive positions shall be in the same plane.
   Davies & Peck.
   
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   Warp , v. i.
   To turn, twist, or be twisted out of shape; esp., to be twisted or bent out of a flat plane; as, a board warps in seasoning or shrinking.
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   One of you will prove a shrunk panel, and, like green timber, warp, warp.
   Shak.
   
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   They clamp one piece of wood to the end of another, to keep it from casting, or warping.
   Moxon.
   
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   to turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper course; to deviate; to swerve.
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   There is our commission,
   From which we would not have you warp.
   Shak.
   
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   To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects.
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   A pitchy cloud
   Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind.
   Milton.
   
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   To cast the young prematurely; to slink; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc. [Prov. Eng.]
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   (Weaving) To wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam.
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   Warp, n. [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, v.]
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   (Weaving) The threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof.
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   (Naut.) A rope used in hauling or moving a vessel, usually with one end attached to an anchor, a post, or other fixed object; a towing line; a warping hawser.
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   (Agric.) A slimy substance deposited on land by tides, etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed.
   Lyell.
   
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   A premature casting of young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc. [Prov. Eng.]
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   Four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See Cast, n., 17. [Prov. Eng.]
   Wright.
   
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   [From Warp, v.] The state of being warped or twisted; as, the warp of a board.
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   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 machine for making warp lace having a number of needles and employing a thread for each needle. -- Warp knitting, a kind of knitting in which a number of threads are interchained each 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.
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