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Weave   /wiv/   Listen
verb
Weave  v. t.  (past wove or weaved; past part. woven or weaved; pres. part. weaving)  
1.
To unite, as threads of any kind, in such a manner as to form a texture; to entwine or interlace into a fabric; as, to weave wool, silk, etc.; hence, to unite by close connection or intermixture; to unite intimately. "This weaves itself, perforce, into my business." "That in their green shops weave the smooth-haired silk To deck her sons." "And for these words, thus woven into song."
2.
To form, as cloth, by interlacing threads; to compose, as a texture of any kind, by putting together textile materials; as, to weave broadcloth; to weave a carpet; hence, to form into a fabric; to compose; to fabricate; as, to weave the plot of a story. "When she weaved the sleided silk." "Her starry wreaths the virgin jasmin weaves."



Weave  v. i.  (past wove or weaved; past part. woven or weaved; pres. part. weaving)  
1.
To practice weaving; to work with a loom.
2.
To become woven or interwoven.



noun
Weave  n.  A particular method or pattern of weaving; as, the cassimere weave.






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"Weave" Quotes from Famous Books



... Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close ...
— The Poet's Poet • Elizabeth Atkins

... arranged for a continental jail, and in perfect order. The sentences however, or some of them, are very terrible. I saw one man sent there for murder under circumstances of mitigation—for 30 years. Upon the silent social system all the time! They weave, and plait straw, and make shoes, small articles of turnery and carpentry, and little common wooden clocks. But the sentences are too long for that monotonous and hopeless life; and, though they are well-fed ...
— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster

... weave, And, for the Church commands it, All men must needs believe, Though no man understands it. God loves his few pet lambs, And saves his one pet nation; The rest he largely damns, ...
— Remember the Alamo • Amelia E. Barr

... sincere this declaration of his sentiments by Leicester,—confessedly one of the deepest dissemblers of the age,—what a curious view does it afford of the windings and intricacies of the character of Elizabeth, of the tissue of ingenious snares which she delighted to weave around the foot-steps even of the man whom she most favored, loved, and trusted! Perhaps she encouraged, if she did not originally devise, this matrimonial project purely as a romantic trial of his attachment to herself, and pleased her fancy with ...
— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin

... no wreath for me, Or twine it of the cypress-tree! Too lively glow the lilies' light, The varnish'd holly 's all too bright, The mayflower and the eglantine May shade a brow less sad than mine; But, lady, weave no wreath for me, Or weave ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes I-VI. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various


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