2. To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out
of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise.
The planks looked warped. --Coleridge.
Walter warped his mouth at this To something so mock
solemn, that I laughed. --Tennyson.
3. To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or
incline; to pervert.
This first avowed, nor folly warped my mind.
--Dryden.
I have no private considerations to warp me in this
controversy. --Addison.
We are divested of all those passions which cloud
the intellects, and warp the understandings, of men.
--Southey.
4. To weave; to fabricate. [R. & Poetic.] --Nares.
While doth he mischief warp. --Sternhold.
5. (Naut.) To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp,
attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object.
6. To cast prematurely, as young; -- said of cattle, sheep,
etc. [Prov. Eng.]
7. (Agric.) To let the tide or other water in upon (lowlying
land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of
warp, or slimy substance. [Prov. Eng.]
8. (Rope Making) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred,
as yarns.
9. (Weaving) To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam.
{Warped surface} (Geom.), a surface generated by a straight
line moving so that no two of its consecutive positions
shall be in the same plane. --Davies & Peck.
One of you will prove a shrunk panel, and, like
green timber, warp, warp. --Shak.
They clamp one piece of wood to the end of another,
to keep it from casting, or warping. --Moxon.
2. to turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper
course; to deviate; to swerve.
There is our commission, From which we would not
have you warp. --Shak.
3. To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave,
like a flock of birds or insects.
A pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern
wind. --Milton.
4. To cast the young prematurely; to slink; -- said of
cattle, sheep, etc. [Prov. Eng.]
5. (Weaving) To wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of
a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam.
2. (Naut.) A rope used in hauling or moving a vessel, usually
with one end attached to an anchor, a post, or other fixed
object; a towing line; a warping hawser.
3. (Agric.) A slimy substance deposited on land by tides,
etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed. --Lyell.
4. A premature casting of young; -- said of cattle, sheep,
etc. [Prov. Eng.]
5. Four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See {Cast}, n., 17.
[Prov. Eng.] --Wright.
6. [From {Warp}, v.] The state of being warped or twisted;
as, the warp of a board.
{Warp beam}, the roller on which the warp is wound in a loom.
{Warp fabric}, fabric produced by warp knitting.
{Warp frame}, or {Warp-net frame}, a machine for making warp
lace having a number of needles and employing a thread for
each needle.
{Warp knitting}, a kind of knitting in which a number of
threads are interchained each with one or more contiguous
threads on either side; -- also called {warp weaving}.
{Warp lace}, or {Warp net}, lace having a warp crossed by
weft threads.