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woven, ppl. a.|ˈwəʊv(ə)n|
Also 6 wouen, wovyn; Sc. 5 wowen, 6 wolvin, 7 wolfin.
[pa. pple. of weave v.1]
1. That has undergone the process of weaving; formed or fabricated by weaving.
c1470Henry Wallace i. 242 A wowen quhyt hatt scho brassit on with all. 1560B. Googe tr. Palingenius' Zodiac ii. (1561) C iiij, The wouen webbe of flaxe. 1575in Archaeologia XXX. 19 Item v paire of woven shets. 1612Sc. Bk. Rates in Halyburton's Ledger (1867) 293 Busteanis or woven tweill stuffe. 1727De Foe Eng. Tradesm. (1732) I. 332 Her Stockings from Tewskbury, if ordinary; from Leicester, if woven. 1758Whitehead Verses to People Eng. 4 And Navies powerful to display Their woven wings to every wind. 1819Shelley Cenci v. ii. 27 You clothed me in a robe of woven gold. 1833Mrs. Browning Prometh. Bound 834 Where Scythia's shepherd peoples dwell aloft, Perched in wheeled wagons under woven roofs. 1883W. D. Curzon Manuf. Industries Worcs. 80 Travelling endless woven wire sieves.
fig.1894J. Davidson Ballads & Songs 33 We set about To bring the world within the woven spell.
2. Formed by interlacing or intertwining after the manner of weaving.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. v. 4 Soone after comes the cruell Sarazin, In wouen maile all armed warily. 1596Edw. III, iii. v. 31 Whilst he, Lion like, Intangled in the net of their assaults, Frantiquely wrends, and byt(e)s the wouen toyle. 1628May Virg. Georg. ii. 49 Take a thick-woven Osiar colander, Through which the pressed wines are strained clear. 1658Rowland tr. Moufet's Theat. Ins. 901 They live here longer..then in their artificial woven Hives. 1793Wordsw. Evening Walk 240 Long grass and willows form the woven wall. 1820Shelley Witch Atl. xxxiii, Woven tracery ran..o'er The solid rind. 1892W. B. Yeats in 1st Bk. Rhymers' Club 7 Under the woven roofs of..boughs.
fig.1644Vicars God in Mount 6 A pernicious woven-knot of malignant active spirits. 1815Shelley Alastor 48 Voice of living beings, and woven hymns Of night and day. 1891Cayley Math. Papers (1897) XIII. 121 The groups thus obtained, with substitutions which interchange the two sets of letters, are said to be ‘woven’ groups.
Comb.1885F. Caddy Footsteps Jeanne D'Arc 12 Horses feed in the wide, woven-fenced fields. 1904Hardy Dynasts I. 5 O woven-winged squadrons of Toulon..draw westward Ere Nelson be near!
3. Interlaced, intertwined; wreathed.
1815Shelley Alastor 459 A well..Images all the woven boughs above. 1833Tennyson Miller's Dau. 232 The kiss, The woven arms, seem but to be Weak symbols of the settled bliss..I have found in thee. 1849Lytton K. Arthur iii. cx, Fair was her prison, walled with woven flowers.
†4. Of paper: = wove ppl. a. 2. Obs.
1797Brit. Critic IX. 72 We have volumes every day, on woven-paper,..in which war is execrated. |