Wire

·vi To send a telegraphic message.

II. Wire ·add. ·noun A knitting needle.

III. Wire ·vt To send (a message) by telegraph.

IV. Wire ·vt To snare by means of a wire or wires.

V. Wire ·vt To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.

VI. Wire ·add. ·noun One who picks women's pockets.

VII. Wire ·vi To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream.

VIII. Wire ·add. ·noun The system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show;.

IX. Wire ·noun A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire.

X. Wire ·add. ·vt To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.

XI. Wire ·vt To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors.

XII. Wire ·add. ·noun A wire stretching across over a race track at the judges' stand, to mark the line at which the races end.

XIII. Wire ·add. ·noun the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; as, to pull the wires for office.

XIV. Wire ·noun 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.