[-ING2.] That warps or is warped, in senses of the verb.
1598. Chapman, Hero & Leander, vi. 20. Who like a fleering slauish Parasite, In warping profit or a traiterous sleight, Hoopes round his rotten bodie with deuotes.
1599. B. Jonson, Ev. Man out of Hum., III. viii. The warping condition of this greene and foggy multitude.
1631. Dekker, Match Mee, III. 35. How easie were it, For you to set this warping Kingdome straight?
1653. R. Sanders, Physiogn., 101. A crooked warping line from the angle, above the hill of Jupiter.
1700. Dryden, Ovid’s Met., XIII. Acis, etc., 85. More warping than the Willow [lentior et salicis virgis].
a. 1722. Lisle, Husb. (1757), 230. Warping beasts and barren heifers … are begun to be fatted with hay from Christmas.
1806. J. Grahame, Birds of Scot., II. 143. The swallow … Skims ’long the brook,… Where dance the midgy clouds in warping maze Confused.
1850. Marsden, Early Purit. (1853), 121. The warping influence of faction.
1875. Tennyson, Q. Mary, I. v. You see thro’ warping glasses.
