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 Warp v. t. [imp. & p. p. Warped p. pr. & vb. n. Warping.]
 1. To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter.  [Obs.]
 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.]
    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.
 10. Aeronautics To twist the end surfaces of (an aerocurve in an airfoil) in order to restore or maintain equilibrium.
 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.