noun the form given in twisting.
2. twist ·noun a roll of twisted dough, baked.
3. twist ·vt a twig.
4. twist ·noun a little twisted roll of tobacco.
5. twist ·noun a beverage made of brandy and gin.
6. twist ·noun a kind of cotton yarn, of several varieties.
7. twist ·noun the spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
8. twist ·noun that which is formed by twisting, convoluting, or uniting parts.
9. twist ·vi to follow a helical or spiral course; to be in the form of a helix.
10. twist ·noun the act of twisting; a contortion; a flexure; a convolution; a bending.
11. twist ·vt to form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to twist wool or cotton.
12. twist ·noun one of the threads of a warp, usually more tightly twisted than the filling.
13. twist ·noun a kind of closely twisted, strong sewing silk, used by tailors, saddlers, and the like.
14. twist ·noun a cord, thread, or anything flexible, formed by winding strands or separate things round each other.
15. twist ·vt hence, to form as if by winding one part around another; to wreathe; to make up.
xvi. twist ·noun a material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together; as, damascus twist.
xvii. twist ·vt to wind into; to insinuate;
used reflexively; as, avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
xviii. twist ·vt to wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
xix. twist ·vt hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert; as, to twist a passage cited from an author.
xx. twist ·add. ·noun act of imparting a turning or twisting motion, as to a pitched ball; also, the motion thus imparted; as, the twist of a billiard ball.
xxi. twist ·vt 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.
xxii. twist ·vt to contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
xxiii. twist ·add. ·noun a strong individual tendency, or bent; a marked inclination; a bias;
often implying a peculiar or unusual tendency; as, a twist toward fanaticism.
xxiv. twist ·vt 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.
xxv. twist ·vi to be contorted; to writhe; to be distorted by torsion; to be united by winding round each other; to be or become twisted; as, some strands will twist more easily than others.