Weave

wēv, v.t. to twine threads together: to unite threads in a loom to form cloth: to work into a fabric: to unite by intermixture: to construct, contrive.— v.i. to practise weaving:— pa.t. wōve, (rarely) weaved; pa.p. wōv′en. — ns. Weav′er ; Weav′er-bird , a family of Pa erine birds resembling the finches, so called from their remarkably woven nests; Weav′ing , the act or art of forming a web or cloth by the intersecting of two distinct sets of fibres, threads, or yarns—those pa ing longitudinally from end to end of the web forming the warp, those cro ing and intersecting the warp at right angles forming the weft. [A.S. wefan ; Ice. vefa , Ger. weben ; cog. with Gr. huppē , a web, huphainein , to weave.]