Warp
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( 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.
(2): ( v. i.) To wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam.
(3): ( v. t.) To cast prematurely, as young; - said of cattle, sheep, etc.
(4): ( v.) 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.
(5): ( v.) A premature casting of young; - said of cattle, sheep, etc.
(6): ( v.) The threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof.
(7): ( v.) Four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See Cast, n., 17.
(8): ( v. t.) To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter.
(9): ( v. t.) To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise.
(10): ( v. t.) To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert.
(11): ( v. t.) To weave; to fabricate.
(12): ( v. t.) To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object.
(13): ( v. i.) To cast the young prematurely; to slink; - said of cattle, sheep, etc.
(14): ( v. t.) To twist the end surfaces of (an aerocurve in an aeroplane) in order to restore or maintain equilibrium.
(15): ( v. t.) To let the tide or other water in upon (lowlying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance.
(16): ( v.) A slimy substance deposited on land by tides, etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed.
(17): ( v.) The state of being warped or twisted; as, the warp of a board.
(18): ( v. t.) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns.
(19): ( v. t.) To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam.
(20): ( v. i.) to turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper course; to deviate; to swerve.
(21): ( v. i.) To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects.
King James Dictionary [2]
WARP, n. Waurp. See the Verb.
1. In manufactures, the threads, which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof. 2. In a ship, a rope employed in drawing, towing or removing a ship or boat a towing line. 3. In agriculture, a slimy substance deposited on land by marine tides, by which a rich alluvial soil is formed. Local. 4. In cows, a miscarriage. See the Verb. Local.
Warp, G to cast or throw, to whelp.
1. To turn, twist or be twisted out of a straight direction as, a board warps in seasoning, or in the heat of the sun, by shrinking.
They clamp one piece of wood to the end of another, to keep it from casting or warping.
2. To turn or incline from a straight, true or proper course to deviate.
Theres our commission, from which we would not have you warp.
Methinks my favor here begins to warp.
3. To fly with a bending or waving motion to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects. The following use of warp is inimitably beautiful.
As when the potent rod of Amrams son, in Egypts evil day, wavd round the coast, up called a pitchy cloud of locusts, warping on the eastern wind--
4. To slink to cast the young prematurely as cows.
In an enclosure near a dog-kennel, eight heifers out of twenty warped. Local.
WARP,
1. To turn or twist out of shape, or out of a straight direction, by contraction. The heat of the sun warps boards and timber. 2. To turn aside from the true direction to cause to bend or incline to pervert.
This first avowd, nor folly warpd my mind.
I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy.
--Zeal, to a degree of warmth able to warp the sacred rule of Gods word.
3. In seamens language, to two or move with a line or warp, attached to buoys, to anchors or to other ships, &c. By which means a ship is drawn, usually in a bending course or with various turns. 4. In rural economy, to cast the young prematurely. Local. 5. In agriculture, to inundate, as land, with sea water or to let in the tide, forth purpose of fertilizing the ground by a deposit of warp or slimy substance. Warp here is the throw, or that which is cast by the water. 6. In rope-making, to run the yarn off the winches into hauls to be tarred.
To warp water, in Shakespeare, is forced and unusual indeed it is not English.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
wôrp ( שׁתי , shethı̄ ( Leviticus 13:48-59 )): The long threads fixed into the loom to form the basis of the web, and into which the woof is wrought from the shuttle. The warp and the woof lying at right angles to one another have in their Hebrew form ( shethı̄ we‛ērebh ) given to modern Jewish speech a secret expression to designate the cross. See Weaving .
