Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TEXT'URE
TEXT'URE, n. [L. textura, textus, from texo, to weave.]
- The act of weaving.
- A web; that which is woven. Others, far on the grassy dale, / Their humble texture weave. Thomson.
- The disposition or connection of threads, filaments or other slender bodies interwoven; as, the texture of cloth or of a spider's web.
- The disposition of the several parts of any body in connection with each other; or the manner in which the constituent parts are united; as, the texture of earthy substances or fossils; the texture of a plant; the texture of paper, of a hat or skin; a loose texture; or a close compact texture.
- In anatomy. [See Tissue.]
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