a. Pertaining to contexture or arrangement of parts; producing contexture; interwoven. Dr. John Smith (1666). [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. contexture. ] The arrangement and union of the constituent parts of a thing; a weaving together of parts; structural character of a thing; system; constitution; texture. [ 1913 Webster ]
That wonderful contexture of all created beings. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
He was not of any delicate contexture; his limbs rather sturdy than dainty. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Formed into texture; woven together; arranged; composed. [ R. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of interweaving, or the state of being interwoven; that which is interwoven. ”Knit in nice intertexture.” Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]
Skirted thick with intertexture firm
Of thorny boughs. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Inwrought; woven in. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A pretext. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of weaving or forming again. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining to texture. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. textura, fr. texere, textum, to weave: cf. F. texture. See Text. ]
Others, apart far in the grassy dale,
Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]
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v. t.
n. The art or process of weaving; texture. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]