ppl. a. Also 6 wouen, wovyn; Sc. 5 wowen, 6 wolvin, 7 wolfin. [pa. pple. of WEAVE v.1]
1. That has undergone the process of weaving; formed or fabricated by weaving.
c. 1470. Henry, Wallace, I. 242. A wowen quhyt hatt scho brassit on with all.
1560. B. Googe, trans. Palingenius’ Zodiac, II. (1561), C iiij. The wouen webbe of flaxe.
1575. in Archaeologia, XXX. 19. Item v paire of woven shets.
1612. Sc. Bk. Rates, in Halyburton’s Ledger (1867), 293. Busteanis or woven tweill stuffe.
1727. De Foe, Eng. Tradesm. (1732), I. 332. Her Stockings from Tewskbury, if ordinary; from Leicester, if woven.
1758. Whitehead, Verses to People Eng., 4. And Navies powerful to display Their woven wings to every wind.
1819. Shelley, Cenci, V. ii. 27. You clothed me in a robe of woven gold.
1833. Mrs. Browning, Prometh. Bound, 834. Where Scythia’s shepherd peoples dwell aloft, Perched in wheeled wagons under woven roofs.
1883. W. D. Curzon, Manuf. Industries Worcs., 80. Travelling endless woven wire sieves.
fig. 1894. J. Davidson, Ballads & Songs, 33.
| We set about | |
| To bring the world within the woven spell. |
2. Formed by interlacing or intertwining after the manner of weaving.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., I. v. 4. Soone after comes the cruell Sarazin, In wouen maile all armed warily.
1596. Edw. III., III. v. 31. Whilst he, Lion like, Intangled in the net of their assaults, Frantiquely wrends, and byt(e)s the wouen toyle.
1628. May, Virg. Georg., II. 49. Take a thick-woven Osiar colander, Through which the pressed wines are strained clear.
1658. Rowland, trans. Moufet’s Theat. Ins., 901. They live here longer … then in their artificial woven Hives.
1793. Wordsw., Evening Walk, 240. Long grass and willows form the woven wall.
1820. Shelley, Witch Atl., xxxiii. Woven tracery ran … o’er The solid rind.
1892. W. B. Yeats, in 1st Bk. Rhymers’ Club, 7.
| How Time may never mar their fairy vows | |
| Under the woven roofs of qicken boughs. |
fig. 1644. Vicars, God in Mount, 6. A pernicious woven-knot of malignant active spirits.
1815. Shelley, Alastor, 48. Voice of living beings, and woven hymns Of night and day.
1891. Cayley, Math. Papers (1897), XIII. 121. The groups thus obtained, with substitutions which interchange the two sets of letters, are said to be ‘woven’ groups.
Comb. 1885. Mrs. Flor. Caddy, Footsteps Jeanne D’Arc, 12. Horses feed in the wide, woven-fenced fields.
3. Interlaced, intertwined; wreathed.
1815. Shelley, Alastor, 459. A well … Images all the woven boughs above.
1833. Tennyson, Miller’s Dau., 232. The kiss, The woven arms, seem but to be Weak symbols of the settled bliss … I have found in thee.
1849. Lytton, K. Arthur, III. cx. Fair was her prison, walled with woven flowers.
† 4. Of paper: = WOVE ppl. a. 2. Obs.
1797. Brit. Critic, IX. 72. We have volumes every day, on woven-paper,… in which war is execrated.
