Twire :: Twire (n.) A twisted filament; a thread.

Twire :: Twire (v. i.) To peep; to glance obliquely; to leer.

Twire :: Twire (v. i.) To twinkle; to glance; to gleam.

Twire :: Twire (v. i.) To sing, or twitter..

Twire-pipe :: Twire-pipe (n.) A vagabond musician.

Wire :: Wire (n.) A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel..

Wire :: Wire (n.) A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire..

Wire :: Wire (v. t.) To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors..

Wire :: Wire (v. t.) To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads..

Wire :: Wire (v. t.) To snare by means of a wire or wires.

Wire :: Wire (v. t.) To send (a message) by telegraph.

Wire :: Wire (v. i.) To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream..

Wire :: Wire (v. i.) To send a telegraphic message.

Wire-drawer :: Wire-drawer (n.) One who draws metal into wire.

Wire-heel :: Wire-heel (n.) A disease in the feet of a horse or other beast.

Wire-puller :: Wire-puller (n.) One who pulls the wires, as of a puppet; hence, one who operates by secret means; an intriguer..

Wire-pulling :: Wire-pulling (n.) The act of pulling the wires, as of a puppet; hence, secret influence or management, especially in politics; intrigue..

Wire-tailed :: Wire-tailed (a.) Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a web or barbules..

Wire-worker :: Wire-worker (n.) One who manufactures articles from wire.

Wired :: Wired (imp. & p. p.) of Wir.

Wiredraw :: Wiredraw (v. t.) To form (a piece of metal) into wire, by drawing it through a hole in a plate of steel..

Wiredraw :: Wiredraw (v. t.) Hence, to draw by art or violence..

Wiredraw :: Wiredraw (v. t.) Hence, also, to draw or spin out to great length and tenuity; as, to wiredraw an argument..

Wiredraw :: Wiredraw (v. t.) To pass, or to draw off, (as steam) through narrow ports, or the like, thus reducing its pressure or force by friction..

Wiredrawing :: Wiredrawing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wiredra.

Wiredrawn :: Wiredrawn (p. p.) of Wiredra.

Wiredrew :: Wiredrew (imp.) of Wiredra.

Wirework :: Wirework (n.) Work, especially openwork, formed of wires..

Wireworm :: Wireworm (n.) One of the larvae of various species of snapping beetles, or elaters; -- so called from their slenderness and the uncommon hardness of the integument. Wireworms are sometimes very destructive to the roots of plants. Called also wire grub..

Wireworm :: Wireworm (n.) A galleyworm.

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