Sentence:  He is the quaintest and queerest personage you ever saw, -- full of dry jokes, the humor of which is so incorporated with the strange <WSD>twistifications</WSD> of his physiognomy, that his sayings ought to be written down, accompanied with illustrations by Cruikshank. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The act of twisting or its result; convolution or distortion.