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verb

Weave v. t. (past wove or weaved; past part. woven or weaved; pres. part. weaving)

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."

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)

To practice weaving; to work with a loom.

To become woven or interwoven.

noun

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

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Etymology of 'Weave'

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... to weave crowns for our Scotchman. I believe the fellow is here on his own account, for I have heard that these gentlemen born beyond the Tweed are very vindictive. I should not like to be Groslow, if he ...

— Twenty Years After • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... the subject as you may think proper. Be assured that they will take it in good part. You may, if you please, at your convenience, return me the suggestions I sent you, as I may have occasion to weave some parts of them into letters that I am frequently obliged to write; the rough draft was made with a pencil & is now illegible. Be assured that your not using them occasioned me no mortification, as I before told you it would not. You had a nearer & could take a safer view of things than myself. ...

— As I Remember - Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century • Marian Gouverneur

... compared to somnambulism seemed at times to disappear. Then your consciousness seemed to spring up for a moment and to take heed of what was passing around you. You would sometimes scamper through the meadows, pluck the wild-flowers and weave them into wreaths round your head, or stand listening to the birds, or hold out your hands as if to embrace the sunny wind. One day when a friend of mine, an enthusiastic angler, who comes here, was going down to ...

— Aylwin • Theodore Watts-Dunton

... burn, No thread weave and no wheel turn; If there's no spindle and there's no wheel, Then no finger the ...

— The Sleeping Beauty • C. S. Evans

... bright-eyed morn; And, with the day-beam's earliest dawn, Her couch the fair Mazelli quits, And gaily, fleetly as a fawn, Along the wildwood paths she flits, Hieing from leafy bower to bower, Culling from each its bud and flower, Of brightest hue and sweetest breath, To weave them in her bridal wreath. Now, pausing in her way, to hear The lay of some wild warbler near, Repaying him, in mocking tone, With music sweeter than his own; Now, o'er some crystal stream low bending, Her image in its waves to see, With its sweet, gurgled music ...

— Mazelli, and Other Poems • George W. Sands

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