weaven.
/wiːv/, U.S. /wiv/ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > woven
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texturea1656
woof1674
webbing1739
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mail net1875
1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades ix. 171 A couerlet fine aloft, Of woollen weaue.
1597 T. Middleton Wisdome of Solomon Paraphr. iv. sig. F So righteous are allurde by sins deceit, And oft inticed into sinners weaue.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. xv. 257 This habit of Iohn, was..rather some finer weave of Camelot. View more context for this quotation
2. A particular method or pattern of weaving.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > method of
weave1888
1888 C. P. Brooks Cotton Manuf. 132 This weave is not confined to the making of fabrics with an unbroken pile surface.
1888 R. Beaumont Woollen & Worsted Cloth Manuf. x. 279 It may..be useful to consider how, from a plain weave warped and woven one thread black and one thread white, the solid lines of these colours..have been formed.
1901 Scotsman 1 Apr. 11/1 With reference to linens there has been a larger demand for weaves of this kind.
Draft additions June 2015
A hairpiece or quantity of human or artificial hair which is interwoven with a person's natural hair in order to increase its length or thickness, or to cover a bald patch; a hairstyle created using such hair. More fully hair weave.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > practice of wearing artificial hair > [noun] > artificial hair > other specific types of
Chedreux1678
caxy1729
cauliflower wig1753
negligée1753
caxona1761
fright wig1904
weave1958
1951 Cleveland (Ohio) Call & Post 29 Nov. 3 a/1 (advt.) The Big fashion Show of this Season..it's the First All Hair Weave Style Revue—presented by Johnnie Mae's Beauty Shop.]
1958 Los Angeles Sentinel 2 Oct. a2/5 (advt.) Milady's Magic Hair Weave method of weaving human hair into growing hair on your head.
1978 J. Zizmor & J. Foreman Superhair xvii. 156 Once you get a hair weave, you've obligated yourself to continual maintenance costs, since every few weeks your weave must be reknotted closer to the scalp.
1997 Atlanta Jrnl.-Constit. (Nexis) 21 Feb. (Business section) 2 Each year African-Americans spend $225 million on hair-weaving services... This includes..the purchase of human and synthetic hair..used to maintain the weaves, which are the most popular form of hair extensions.
2014 Toronto Star (Nexis) 29 Nov. a1 House said that the photo..was several years old, and showed Hay with ‘longer, combed hair. I think it was in some sort of a weave.’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
weavev.1
/wiːv/, U.S. /wiv//wəʊv/; past participle woven /ˈwəʊv(ə)n/. Forms: infinitive and present stem Old English wefan (2 singular wyfst, 3 singular wefð, wifeð, wyfð), weofan, Middle English–1500s weve, Middle English wewe, wef(e, Middle English–1500s weyve, Scottish weif(f, weff, 1500s weeve, wayve, wyeve, Scottish weive, weiwe, wif(f, wyf, wywe, 1500s–1800s Scottish wyve, 1500s– weave. past tense singular Old English wæf, wef, Middle English wof, woof, Middle English waf, wafe, wave, 1500s– wove; weak Middle English wevede, 1600s weavde, 1500s–1800s weaved. past tense plural Old English wǽfon, Middle English weven, woven. past participle Old English wefen, gewefen, giwefen, northern geuoefen, Middle English iweove, iweven, Middle English iweve, wovun, ywoven, ( i)wovyn, Middle English–1500s Scottish weif, 1500s Scottish weffin, wiffin, woifen, wowein, wolvin, 1600s–1800s wove, Middle English– woven; weak Middle English–1500s weved, Middle English weft, woved, Middle English weuyd, 1600s weevd, weavd, 1500s–1800s weaved. 1. figurative.1802 W. Scott T. Rhymer iii. xvi Their loves, their woes, the gifted bard In fairy tissue wove.figurative.1893 H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey I. App. A. 451 Legend has woven a wreath round the early history of the family.
a. transitive. To form or fabricate (a stuff or material) by interlacing yarns or other filaments of a particular substance in a continuous web; to manufacture in a loom by crossing the threads or yarns called respectively the warp and the weft. Also with object the web itself, a garment made up of such a stuff or material. †to weave out: to complete the weaving of. †to weave in a stool: see stool n. 3.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > manufacture textile fabric [verb (intransitive)] > weave
weavec900
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [verb (transitive)] > weave > weave fabric
weavec900
weba1325
warpc1430
loom?1549
tissuea1851
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [verb (transitive)] > weave > complete weaving of
to weave out1535
outweave1617
c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iv. xxv. 354 Hio smælo hrægel weofaþ & wyrcaþ.
c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 504/2 Ordiretur, wefen wæs.
c1200 Virtues & Vices 39 Al swa nan webb ne mai bien iweuen wið-uten twa beames.
c1290 St. Edmund Conf. 167 in S. Eng. Leg. 436 Heo [a hair shirt] nas i-sponne ne i-weoue, ake i-broide strengus longue.
c1300 Assump. Virg. 668 This ilke webbe here self woof.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 237 Thei tawhten him a Las to breide, And weve a Pours.
c1450 Mirk's Festial 246 Scho occupiet hir craft of weuyng cloþes and ornamentes to þe auter.
1483 Cath. Angl. 412/1 To Wefe, texere.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xiii. viii. 86 The precyus wedis, Wrocht craftely, and weif of goldin thredis Quhilum be fair Andromachais hand.
1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iii. x. O v b/2 Yt were as sone done to weue a new web of clothe as to sowe vppe euery hole in a net.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 779/1 The weyver sayeth he can nat wayve my clothe tyll he have more yarne.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job vii. 6 My dayes passe ouer more spedely, then a weeuer can weeue out his webbe.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Textrina.., the place where thinges be weaued or wounden.
1539 Bible (Great) 2 Kings xxiii. 7 Where the wemen woue hanginges for the groue.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxiijv For all the copes and Vestementes wer but of one pece, so wouen for the purpose.
1584 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 13 For weavinge forescore yerdes and four of canuise, vs.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 285 Faire Reading towne,..where Cloth's ywoven be.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 250 He weau'd these Napkins.
1670 Sir S. Crow in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 15 The silke..beeing ill woven will shrink and pucker.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 410 These Purple Vests were weav'd by Dardan Dames.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 483 The Mantle..which I wove with Care.
1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xv. 139 Accept, dear youth, this monument of love, Long since, in better days, by Helen wove.
1789–96 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. I. 541 Woollen stockings..of excellent quality are wove by the Germans, especially in Germantown.
1856 G. Roberts Social Hist. S. Counties Eng. 376 Our lace was not wove. It had neither warp nor woof.
1871 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce i. iii. 69 The shawls and the textile furniture used in the rites of religion were frequently woven in the temples.
b. in figurative context.In many languages the equivalent verb is used in metaphorical expressions relating to the contriving of plots or deception: so Greek ὑϕαίνειν, Latin texere, ordiri, French ourdir. Cf. 1f.
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xxx. 1 Wo!.. seith the Lord, that ȝee schulden do counseil, and not of me; and wefen a web [L. ordiremini telam], and not bi my spirit.
1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe v. sig. I3 In my mothers wombe to all the wiles Weeud [printed Weend] in the loomes of greatnes, and of state.
a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) ii. v. 191 If..each Deputy should giue in writing to the State in England a full relation of his gouernment and the State of that kingdome [sc. Ireland], so as his successour might weaue the same webb he had begunn, and not make a newe frame of his owne.
a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) 64 For much they feared that Abbot would unravel all the Web which Bancroft with such pains had weaved.
1796 E. Hamilton Lett. Hindoo Rajah (1811) II. 220 The robes of the seasons, wove in the changeful looms of nature.
1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. xvii. 343 O what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!
1842 E. Bulwer-Lytton Zanoni i. i All this helped silently to weave charmed webs over Viola's imagination.
1893 F. Thompson Poems 59 Better thou wov'st thy woof of life than thou didst weave thy woof of song.
c. said of the loom.
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1804 W. L. Bowles Spir. Discov. ii. 275 Thy mariners..furled th' embroidered sails, That looms of Egypt wove.
d. To depict in tapestry.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of ornamental textiles or trimmings > manufacture ornamental textiles or trimmings [verb (transitive)] > work or depict in tapestry
weavec1385
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c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 2360 She hadde I-wouyn In a stamyn large How she was brought from Athenys in a Barge.
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 2364 And al the thyng that Tereus hath wrought She waf it wel & wrot the storye a-boue.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. v. 15 Quhairon wes weif in subtell goldin threidis King Troyus son [etc.].
a1683 J. Oldham Remains in Verse & Prose 114 in Wks. & Remains (1684) I have seen a handsomer Mortal carv'd in Monumental Gingerbread, and woven in Hangings at Mortlock.
e. figurative. To contrive, fabricate, or construct (a mental product) with elaborate care. Also with out, up.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > in other specific ways
sprengec1300
weavec1420
unwomb1594
coagulate1633
texture1694
to strike out1720
to strike out1735
transcreatea1834
peel1885
the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > invention, devising > invent, devise [verb (transitive)]
findeOE
understand1297
devisea1300
shapec1381
warpa1387
enginec1400
weavec1420
reparel1434
studyc1530
conjecture1551
spina1575
ingeniate1592
think1599
to pattern out1601
decoct1602
smooth1603
to fetch about1611
fancy1635
plait1642
erect1646
c1420 Wyclif Bible I. 71/1 Of whom the first [Isaiah] is not seyn to me to weuen prophecie, but euangelie.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Gg6v Your wise, but very darke speeches..are wouen vp in so intricate a maner, as I know not how to proportion mine answere vnto them.
a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie (1648) vi. 91 For answer whereunto Acesius weaveth out a long History of things that hapned in the persecution under Decius.
1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) i. xxxv. 44 The Author's subtilty in weaving of his Poem.
1799 T. Campbell Pleasures of Hope & Other Poems i. 165 Then weave in rapid verse the deeds they tell.
1819 W. S. Rose Lett. from N. Italy I. 24 I had already woven a little romance for him in my imagination.
1824 C. Lamb in London Mag. Sept. 225/1 Contemplations on the great and good..weave for us illusions.
1849 D. M. Mulock Ogilvies ii Katherine had already woven out the whole romance of the stranger's life.
1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner i. 20 You stole the money, and you have woven a plot to lay the sin at my door.
1862 H. Spencer First Princ. i. iii. §21. 66 The original materials out of which all thought is woven.
1874 M. Creighton Hist. Ess. (1902) i. 42 The..desire for reality that made him [Dante] weave his poem around himself.
1876 E. M. Thompson Chron. A. de Usk 186 The evil arts of brewing charms and weaving spells.
1885 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche iii. xv. 32 Pathetic strains and passionate they wove, Urgent in ecstasies of heavenly sense.
1913 W. K. Fleming Mysticism in Christianity 108 In his writings, his weakness lay in his proneness..to weave endless allegories out of the Old Testament writings.
f. To form (e.g. a basket, a wreath) by interlacing rods or twigs, flowers, etc.
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the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > intertwine or interweave [verb (transitive)] > form by
wind971
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contex1542
wreathea1547
twista1592
comply?1611
inweave1667
entwine1697
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvii. clii. sig. Tviv/2 Stakes be pyghte in the grounde, & there abowte ben wrethes wouen & wounden of thornes & roddes [a1398 BL Add. beþ ywreþe, ywralled and ywounde þornes and ȝerdes].
1599 ‘T. Cutwode’ Caltha Poetarum (Roxb.) cxxiv And others very busie do begin: To weaue their litle baskets..to put their hearbs and all their flowers in.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 839 Adam the while..had wove Of choicest Flours a Garland to adorne Her Tresses. View more context for this quotation
1757 J. Dyer Fleece i. 24 Hurdles to weave, and chearly shelters raise, Thy vacant hours require.
1813 W. Scott Rokeby v. 228 Then, Lady, weave a wreath for me, And weave it of the cypress tree.
1839 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation (1863) 21 Among the Brobdignagian sedges..the nightshade..weaves a perfect matting of its poisonous garlands.
1842 T. B. Macaulay Horatius lxix When the girls are weaving baskets, And the lads are shaping bows.
1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 10 Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves and feathers from her breast?
1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail viii. 59 With the skill of ghastly practice some of them wove a litter on which the body was placed.
g. Scottish. To knit. Also dialect to plait (hair).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [verb (transitive)] > knit
knit1530
weave1695
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > beautify (the hair) [verb (transitive)] > braid
tress?a1366
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1695 Rec. Old Aberdeen (New Spalding Club) I. 160 Privat schooles..wherein children ar taught to sew or wyve.
1786 R. Burns Poems 196 On Fasteneen we had a rockin, To ca' the crack and weave our stockin.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. To Weave, To knit, applied to stockings, &c.; pron. Wyve, Aberd.
1884 J. C. Egerton Sussex Folk 132 He..used to go regularly twice a week to the house of one of his principal customers, ‘to weave his cue’, or, in less professional language, to plait his pigtail.
h. In figurative use apparently sometimes confusedly: To spin, twine (a cord, thread).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [verb (transitive)] > other processes
twinec1300
weave1426
scour1751
gas1825
double-deck1842
pin-work1853
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 24413 The cordeler that waf the corde Of pes, vnyte, and concorde,..Hyr name was called ‘Charyte’.
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 19 The Indians uproar had weaved for us a thred of long discourse.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxv. 249 The men weave their long yarns with peals of rattling hearty laughter between.
2. absol. or intransitive. To practise weaving; to work with a loom.
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c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) xv. 104 Tui ancilla texit Ðin wyln wefð.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 170 Hire moder..Bad that sche scholde..lerne forto weve and spinne.
c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert l. 129 A conuerse of þat same ordre..sat stille in his craft weuyng.
1585 E. D. Prayse of Nothing A ij b For equity would not..that Arachne weaue in the frames of Minerua.
1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xix. 206 I can sing, weaue, sow, & dance, with other vertues. View more context for this quotation
1781 W. Cowper Truth 317 Yon cottager who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store.
1818 2nd Rep. Minutes of Evid. Ribbon Weavers 112 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 211 & 278) IX. 53 My father is a silk weaver; it is about twenty years since I first began to weave.
1828 T. Carlyle Heyne in Misc. Ess. (1840) II. 41 The poor cottage, where his father had weaved.
1917 T. R. Glover From Pericles to Philip i. 17 [In Egypt] Women go to market and men stay at home and weave, and they weave down where others weave up.
3. transitive. Of a spider, insect: To spin (a web, a cocoon). Also absol.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [verb (transitive)] > spin web
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [verb (intransitive)] > spin
weavec1220
spin1728
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [verb (transitive)] > spin cocoon
weavec1220
cocoon1880
c1220 Bestiary 468 Ðe spinnere..werpeð ðus hire web and weueð on hire wise.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. lix. 5 The webbis of an attercop thei wouen [v.r. weueden].
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) (1495) xviii. xi Þe female leieþ egges and þereof comeþ smal spiþeres and þe modre setteþ hem to weue as sone as þei beþ yheiȝt.
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 19269 As an yreyne wewyth a calle, To make fflyes there-in to ffalle.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xxx She..beganne to deuyse & spynne a new webbe, lyke a spyder that dayly weueth when hys calle is torne.
1604 M. Drayton Owle sig. E2v The spyders woue their webbs euen in his wings.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 111 Silke-wormes..infold themselues in a piece of silk they weaue of an ouall forme and yellow color.
1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 595 While ev'ry worm industriously weaves And winds his web about the rivell'd leaves. View more context for this quotation
4. † f. intr. to weave out: to become unwoven. nonce-use (suggested by the context). Obsolete.
a. To form a texture with (threads, filaments, strips of some material); to interlace or intertwine so as to form a fabric.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [verb (transitive)] > weave
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1538 T. Elyot Dict. Licia, be thredes, whiche sylke women do weaue in lyncelles or stooles.
1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xv. 21 When they weaude the sleded silke, With fingers long, small, white as milke. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iv. 44 The Spinsters and the Knitters in the Sun, And the free maides that weaue their thred with bones. View more context for this quotation
1638 H. Peacham Valley of Varietie 131 There remains fine hairie threds, like unto Flax, which are woven into cloth.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals x, in tr. Virgil Wks. 48 This while I sung, my Sorrows I deceiv'd, And bending Osiers into Baskets weav'd.
1789 Massachusetts Spy 27 Aug. 3/2 A young lady of Milton lately spun 70 skeins of thread out of a pound of Cotton—which another young lady wove.
1808 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. V. 272 To send cotton yarn from the mills..into the remote glens of the Highlands, for the purpose of being weaved.
1877–80 Gazetteer Industr. Great Brit. III. 212 Milligan..wove-in the silk white, and dyed the flowers their natural colour in the piece.
a1908 C. Bigg Origins Christianity (1909) 459 The art of weaving flax had been introduced from Babylon.
b. To entwine or wreathe together.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [verb (transitive)] > coil or twist together
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1578 J. Banister Hist. Man iv. f. 48 v Fibres..so intertexed and wouen together, as that one from another..cannot be disioyned.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 167 Citizens daughters..weare nothing vpon their heads but their haire wouen with laces, and so gathered on the fore-part of the head.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 43 The Grottoes cool, with shady Poplars crown'd, And creeping Vines on Arbours weav'd around.
1727 P. Longueville Hermit 167 He bends the Branches..and weaves them cross one another.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxvi. 106 Again at Christmas did we weave The holly round the Christmas hearth. View more context for this quotation
c. figurative. To intermingle or unite closely or intimately as if by weaving; to work up into an elaborate and connected whole. Also with in.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > intricately
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1545 S. Gardiner Let. 12 May in Abp. M. Parker Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 27 In the tragedy untruth is so maliciously weaved with truth [etc.].
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vi. 15 This weaues..it selfe perforce into my busines. View more context for this quotation
1637 S. Rutherford Let. 8 Aug. in Joshua Redivivus (1664) 71 Is not this hell & heaven woven thorow other?
1638 T. Herbert (title) Some Yeares Travels..Describing especially the two famous Empires, the Persian, and great Mogull: weaved with the History of these later Times.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. ii. 13 Can they receive and assent to adventitious Notions, and be ignorant of those, which are supposed woven into the very Principles of their Being..?
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 40. ¶2 An Author might as well think of weaving the Adventures of Æneas and Hudibras into one Poem.
a1719 J. Addison Evid. Christian Relig. (1733) v. 42 When religion was woven into the civil government, and flourished under the protection of the Emperors.
1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III cxii. 61 And for these words, thus woven into song, It may be that they are a harmless wile.
1862 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. (1866) 1st Ser. 203 Science weaves phenomena into unity.
1875 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Musical Form ix. 49 Put the melody in the bass, or in an inner part, and weave in a new melody with it in the upper part.
c1904 Bridges La Gloire de Voltaire in Poet. Wks. (1912) 381 Grave Dante weaving well His dark-eyed thought into a song divine.
d. intransitive for reflexive. To become woven or interwoven. Also figurative. rare.
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the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > intertwine or interweave [verb (intransitive)]
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1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. ii. 30 The amorous Vine which in the Elme still weaues.
1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton King Arthur ii. lxxi Tears weave with smiles to form the bridge to heaven!
e. intransitive. With quasi-passive sense: To admit of being woven.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > [verb (intransitive)] > admit of being woven
weave1842
1842 R. Oastler Fleet Papers II. 26 It will not spin into good yarn, nor weave into wearable cloths.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > loosening or unfastening > be loosened, unfastened, or undone [verb (intransitive)] > become untwisted or unravelled
feazea1577
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to weave out1641
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unravel1815
disentwine1875
1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 78 The government of Episcopacy, is now so weav'd into the common Law: In Gods name let it weave out againe.
5. transitive. To enmesh or entangle, to wrap up, as in a net, etc. In quots. figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)]
bewindOE
writheOE
windc1175
bewrap?c1225
lapa1300
umbelaya1300
umbeweave1338
wlappec1380
enwrapa1382
wrapa1382
inlap1382
envelop1386
forwrapc1386
hapc1390
umbeclapa1400
umbethonrea1400
umblaya1400
wapc1420
biwlappea1425
revolve?a1425
to roll up?a1425
roll?c1425
to roll ina1475
wimple1513
to wind up?1533
invest1548
circumvolve1607
awrap1609
weave1620
sheet1621
obvolve1623
embowdle1625
amict1657
wry1674
woold1775
overwrap1815
wrapper1885
wrapper1905
weve-
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > hinder in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > by entangling or binding
shrenchc897
beswapec980
taglea1340
tanglea1340
gyve1377
encumber138.
engleimc1400
wrapc1412
involvec1440
fetter1526
mesh1532
crawl1548
felter1567
to tie up1570
in trick1572
ensnarl1593
entrammel1598
engage1603
casta1605
imbrier1605
weave1620
immaze1631
trammel1727
enchain1751
entangle1790
enmesh1822
in mesh1875
1620 Horæ Subseciuæ 394 And thus being wouen in their [Roman] nets, they be in a manner destitute of all possibility of recouery.
1869 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows (1871) 43 The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts.
6.
a. To cause to move in a devious course; to direct (one's steps) in a devious or intricate course, as in dancing.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct (one's course, steps, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > make zig-zag course
weave1650
zigzag1787
traverse1905
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > change direction of movement of [verb (transitive)] > traverse in winding course > cause to move in winding course
weave1650
serpentine1850
1650 R. Heath Clarastella 11 Her steps with such an evenness she wove, As shee could hardly be perceiv'd to move.
1839 T. De Quincey Sketches Life & Manners in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 572/1 Sarah was going about the crowd, and weaving her person in and out.
1893 K. D. Wiggin Cathedral Courtship 136 To weave that donkey and that Bath ‘cheer’ through the narrow streets..is a task for a Jehu.
b. To go through the intricate movements of (a dance).
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society > leisure > dancing > movements or steps > [verb (transitive)] > figures
weave1792
1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. ii. 36 Weave the light dance and swell the choral song.
1862 J. M. Neale Hymns Eastern Church 46 They..to that eternal Pascha Wove the dance and raised the strain.
Derivatives
weaved adj. = woven adj. Also weaved-up.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > [adjective] > intertwined or interwoven
writhenOE
twinedc1300
locked1488
wreathena1500
plait1529
implicatec1540
context?1541
twisted1548
weaved1552
wreathed?1552
texed1572
well-woven1578
woven1590
interlaced1593
entrailed1599
entest1608
implicit1608
folden1612
inextricate?1615
intertissueda1616
complicatea1626
enwreathed1631
interwoven1642
inwoven1667
intertwineda1680
plectilea1682
well-wove1690
implicated1761
osiered1820
inwrought1824
complected1828
impleached1829
internetted1849
enlaced1851
threaded1853
interknit1885
interwrought1895
pleached1896
interweaved1898
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Weued, textus.
1561 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) vi. sig. Rviv Lyke as the flye that smallest is in weued Cobweb hye.
1608 W. Shakespeare Richard II iv. i. 219 And must I rauell out My weaud vp Folly.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
weavev.2
/wiːv/, U.S. /wiv/ 1.
a. intransitive. To move repeatedly from side to side; †to toss to and fro; to sway the body alternately to one side and the other; to pursue a devious course, thread one's way amid obstructions.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (intransitive)] > sway
wawc888
swang1340
waltera1375
swayve1377
swayc1500
nod1578
weave1596
showd1599
swing1607
swag1608
slinger1767
wintle1786
swale1820
daven1977
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > change direction of movement [verb (intransitive)] > move with sudden turn > move with sudden turns
redoublec1443
double1594
weave1596
hare1893
jinkle1893
to bob and weave1928
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > make zig-zag course
tack1700
zigzag1787
to work a traverse1805
weave1884
traverse1905
Major-Mitchell1922
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > make zig-zag course > between obstacles
darn1890
weave1898
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. iv. sig. P2 Whilest thus amidst the billowes beating of her Twixt life and death, long to and fro she weaued [rhymes bereaued, deceaued] . View more context for this quotation
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 146 Their fantasticall gestures exceed all barbarisme, continually weauing with their bodies, and often iumping vp-right (as is the manner in dauncing).
1682 Heraclitus Ridens 13 June 2/1 By and by I saw him weaving from one side of the Pulpit to t'other.
a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) vii. 258 Him who grinds The hurdy-gurdy, at the fiddle weaves; Rattles the salt-box [etc.].
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 387 Weaving, moving backward and forward in a chair when uneasy or in trouble. ‘You're weaving your web of sorrow,’ is often said to any one so doing. A metaphor from the loom.
1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xx. 173 The preacher..begun in earnest, too; and went weaving first to one side of the platform and then the other.
1897 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Weave (American), to work along from one side to the other... A drunken man ‘weaves along’.
1898 S. R. Crockett Standard Bearer ii. 14 Twenty or thirty dragoons were urging their horses forward in pursuit, weaving this way and that among the soft lairy places.
b. spec. of a horse or a wild animal in captivity: To move the head, neck, and body restlessly from side to side of the stall.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [verb (intransitive)] > move from side to side
weave1831
the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (intransitive)] > weave (of animal in captivity)
weave1973
1831 W. Youatt Horse xix. 345 Weaving..consists in a motion of the head, neck, and body, from side to side like the shuttle of a weaver.
1869 F. Fitzwygram Horses & Stables §194. 121 As a general rule, horses do not weave, unless they are tied up.
1934 [implied in: Miller & Robertson Pract. Animal Husbandry 59 Weaving is a nervous habit acquired by many wild animals in captivity (especially bears), and occasionally by horses. (at weaving n.2 2)].
1973 G. Durrell Beasts in my Belfry vii. 140 I could only presume that he [sc. a buffalo doing a sort of waltz] put on this performance for the same reason that a lion paces up and down its cage or a polar bear or an elephant will weave from side to side—a soothing and interesting habit to pass the time till the next meal.
c. R.A.F. Of an aircraft or its pilot: to fly a devious course, usually in attempting to avoid enemy planes or anti-aircraft fire. Also transferred (in this use slang).
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > fly (in) an aircraft [verb (intransitive)] > so as to avoid detection or gunfire
weave1941
to play pussy1942
1941 Battle of Britain Aug.–Oct. 1940 (Min. of Information) 13 Enemy bomber formations were..protected by a box of fighters, some of which flew slightly above to a flank or in rear,..and..others weaving in and out between the sub-formations of the bombers.
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 22 I took my Edgar Wallace from the billet and weaved out to the Nissen hut.
1943 P. Brennan et al. Spitfires over Malta 26 The remaining four 110's at once broke, and began weaving, each steering a different course home.
1952 M. Tripp Faith is Windsock vi. 90 He saw a flak-burst below, then another, and another... ‘Weave, Dig, the bastards are predicting us.’
1973 N. Monsarrat Kappillan of Malta 38 The sky above him seemed full of planes, weaving and circling like the flies in the wine-shop.
d. to get weaving, to apply oneself briskly to something; to ‘get a move on’. Cf. to get cracking at crack v. 22b colloquial (originally R.A.F. slang).
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > resolutely or energetically
to go to it1490
busklea1535
settle1576
to lay on1587
to put in (also get into) one's gearsa1658
to put (occasionally lay, set) one's shoulder to the wheel1678
yark1721
to get going1822
to pitch in1835
to roll up one's sleeves1838
square1849
to clap on1850
to wire in (also away)1864
to dig in1884
hunker1903
tie into1904
to get cracking1937
to get stuck in1938
to get weaving1942
to get it on1954
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 30 May 19 We'll knock that..place off the map. Get weaving.
1942 T. Rattigan Flare Path iii. 83 We'd better get weaving, or we'll find this chemist feller has gone to lunch.
1948 A. Baron From City, from Plough v. 36 There won' 'alf be a queue at the NAAFI... Let's get weaving.
1959 M. Pugh Chancer 49 When he gets weaving, the dashboard ashtray does three thousand revs.
1964 R. Braddon Year Angry Rabbit i. 8 And this call's costing me a ruddy fortune so how's about you hang up and get weaving, eh?
1971 B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 185 Pack your night things in a small pack and get weaving, while I lay on transport.
2. transitive. To move (the hand or something held by it) to and fro, up and down.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (transitive)] > wave, esp. the hand
waive1338
waft1604
weave1607
wavea1616
flarea1766
wampish1816
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 404 Make the ointment to sinke wel into the flesh, by holding a hot broad barre ouer the place annointed, weauing your hand too and fro, vntil the ointment be entred into the skin.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 417 Hauing annointed all the raw places with this ointment, make it to sinke into the flesh, by holding and weauing vp and downe ouer it, a hot broad barre of yron.
3. To make a signal to (a ship or its occupants) by waving a flag or something used as a substitute. Also intransitive with for.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > indication > signalling > signal (something) [verb (transitive)] > signal by waving something
wave1589
weave1593
1593 Sir F. Drake Revived (1628) 27 He wheaued vs with his hat, and his long hanging sleeues to come a shoare.
1599 T. Dallam Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) i. 41 The nexte daye..he came to the sea sid, and weaved for a boate.
1600 in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 566 Then shaking a pike of fire in defiance of the enemie, and weauing them amaine, we bad them come aboord: and an Englishman in the gallie made answer, that they would come aboord presently.
1622 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1622–3 (1908) 33 Which when they perceaved, they weived us with naked swords.
a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) 59 Although I shott towardes them and weaued them to follow me.
4. Pugilism. (transitive and intransitive) To creep close into (one's opponent) before delivering one's blow; to step in feinting and try to approach close to one's opponent in order to administer punishment. Also (? Obsolete), to get (the adversary's head) ‘in chancery’.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > box [verb (intransitive)] > actions
lunge1809
weave1818
counter1857
lead1895
slip1897
unload1912
smother1916
to bob and weave1928
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > box [verb (transitive)] > hold in grasp
weave1818
hold1922
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > box [verb (transitive)] > actions
parry1672
punish1801
pink1810
shy1812
sling1812
mug1818
weave1818
prop1846
feint1857
counter1861
cross-counter1864
slip1897
hook1898
unload1912
to beat a person to the punch1923
mitt1930
tag1938
counterpunch1964
1818 Sporting Mag. (N.S.) 2 23 Spring held his opponent's hand..to prevent being weaved.
1818 Sporting Mag. (N.S.) 2 23 Painter..endeavoured to weave his antagonist.
1818 Sporting Mag. (N.S.) 3 133 Neither were expert hands at weaving, and Martin was thrown.
1821 P. Egan Boxiana III. 397 The strength and skill of Belasco enabled him to hold up his opponent, and weave on, till he got Sampson down on both his knees.
1832 P. Egan Bk. Sports 26/2 In closing, Curtis captured his opponent's ‘knowledge-box’, and was endeavouring to weave it under his arms, but [etc.].
1921 Times 29 June 10/6 Defensively he [sc. Dempsey] is a much better boxer than one might easily suppose... His body sways as he weaves in and out, making him a very elusive target and very difficult to land on with a hard punch.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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