Twist

1. v. t. A twig.
2. v. t. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
3. v. t. Hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert; as, to twist a passage cited from an author.
4. v. t. To distort, as a solid body, by turning one part relatively to another about an axis passing through both; to subject to torsion; as, to twist a shaft.
5. v. t. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
6. v. t. To wind into; to insinuate; — used reflexively; as, avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
7. v. t. To unite by winding one thread, strand, or other flexible substance, round another; to form by convolution, or winding separate things round each other; as, to twist yarn or thread.
8. v. t. Hence, to form as if by winding one part around another; to wreathe; to make up.
9. v. t. To form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to twist wool or cotton.
10. v. i. To be contorted; to writhe; to be distorted by torsion; to be united by winding round each other; to be or become twisted; as, some strands will twist more easily than others.
11. 1v. t. 1 A twig.
12. 1v. t. 1 To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.