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Twin [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Noting one of two born at a birth; as a twin brother or sister.

2. Very much resembling.

3. In botany, swelling out into two protuberances, as an anther or germ.

4. Born at the same birth.

Twin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One of two young produced at a birth by an animal that ordinarily brings but one; used mostly in the plural, twins; applied to the young of beasts, as well as to human beings.

2. A sign of the zodiac; Gemini.

3. One very much resembling another.

Twin [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To be born at the same birth.

2. To bring two at once.

3. To be paired; to be suited. [This verb is little used.]

Twin [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To separate into two parts.

Twin [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Being one of two born at a birth; as, a twin brother or sister.

2. Being one of a pair much resembling one another; standing the relation of a twin to something else; -- often followed by to or with.

3. Double; consisting of two similar and corresponding parts.

4. Composed of parts united according to some definite law of twinning. See Twin, n., 4.

Twin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One of two produced at a birth, especially by an animal that ordinarily brings forth but one at a birth; -- used chiefly in the plural, and applied to the young of beasts as well as to human young.

2. A sign and constellation of the zodiac; Gemini. See Gemini.

3. A person or thing that closely resembles another.

4. A compound crystal composed of two or more crystals, or parts of crystals, in reversed position with reference to each other.

Twin [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To bring forth twins.

2. To be born at the same birth.

3. To depart from a place or thing.

Twin [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To cause to be twins, or like twins in any way.

2. To separate into two parts; to part; to divide; hence, to remove; also, to strip; to rob.

Twinborn [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Born at the same birth.

Twine [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together; used for binding small parcels, and for sewing sails to their bolt-ropes, etc. twine of a stronger kind is used for nets.

2. A twist; a convolution; as Typhon's snaky twine

3. Embrace; act of winding round.

Twine [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To unite closely, or by interposition of parts.

2. Friends now fast sworn, who twine in love--

3. To wind; to bend; to make turns.

4. As rivers, though they bend and twine--

5. To turn round; as, her spindles twine

Twine [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To twist; to wind, as one thread or cord around another, or as any flexible substance around another, or as any flexible substance around another body; as fine twined linen. Exodus 39:2 .

2. To unite closely; to cling to; to embrace.

3. To gird; to wrap closely about.

4. Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine

Twine [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A twist; a convolution.

2. A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.

3. The act of twining or winding round.

4. To twist together; to form by twisting or winding of threads; to wreathe; as, fine twined linen.

5. To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.

6. To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.

7. To change the direction of.

8. To mingle; to mix.

Twine [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved.

2. To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.

3. To turn round; to revolve.

4. To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally; as, many plants twine.

Twined [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Twisted; wound round.

Twined [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Twiner [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Any plant which twines about a support.

Twinge [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. twinj. A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as a twinge in the arm or side.

2. A sharp rebuke of conscience.

3. A pinch; a tweak; as a twinge of the ear.

Twinge [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. twinj.

2. To affect with a sharp sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.

3. The gnat twinged the lion till he made him tear himself, and so he mastered him.

4. To pinch; to tweak; to pull with a jerk; as, to twinge one by the ears and nose.

5. twinj. to have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen spasmodic or shooting pain; as, the side twinges. [This is the sense in which this word is generally used within the limits of my acquaintance.

Twinge [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.

2. A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side.

Twinge [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.

2. To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.

3. To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges.

Twinged [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Twinging [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The act of pinching with a sudden twitch; a sudden, sharp, local pain.

Twinging [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Suffering a sharp local pain of short continuance; pinching with a sudden pull.

Twinging [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Twining [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Twisting; winding round; uniting closely to; embracing.

2. In botany, ascending spirally around a branch, stem or prop.

Twining [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Winding around something; twisting; embracing; climbing by winding about a support; as, the hop is a twinning plant.

2. The act of one who, or that which, twines; (Bot.) the act of climbing spirally.

Twining [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Twink [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

TWINK . [ See Twinkle .]

Twink [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A wink; a twinkling.

2. The chaffinch.

Twink [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To twinkle.

Twinkle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To sparkle; to flash at intervals; to shine with a tremulous intermitted light, or with a broken quivering light. The fixed stars twinkle; the planets do not.

2. These stars do not twinkle when viewed through telescopes that have large apertures.

3. To open and shut the eye by turns; as the twinkling owl.

4. To play irregularly; as, her eyes will twinkle

5. TWIN'KLE

Twinkle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A closing or opening, or a quick motion, of the eye; a wink or sparkle of the eye.

2. A brief flash or gleam, esp. when rapidly repeated.

3. The time of a wink; a twinkling.

Twinkle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink.

2. To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate.

Twinkled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Twinkler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, or that which, twinkles, or winks; a winker; an eye.

Twinkling [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A sparkling; a shining with intermitted light; as the twinkling of the stars.

2. A motion of the eye.

3. A moment; an instant; the time of a wink.

4. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump--the dead shall be raised incorruptible. 1 Corinthians 15:52 .

Twinkling [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Sparkling.

Twinkling [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle.

2. A shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a sparkling; as, the twinkling of the stars.

3. The time of a wink; a moment; an instant.

Twinkling [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Twinleaf [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Jeffersonia.

Twinlike [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Closely resembling; being a counterpart.

Twinling [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A twin lamb.

Twinling [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A young or little twin, especially a twin lamb.

Twinned [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Produced at one birth, like twins; united.

Twinned [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Composed of parts united according to a law of twinning. See Twin, n., 4.

Twinned [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Twinner [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A breeder of twins.

Twinner [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins.

Twinning [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The assemblage of two or more crystals, or parts of crystals, in reversed position with reference to each other in accordance with some definite law; also, rarely, in artificial twinning (accomplished for example by pressure), the process by which this reversal is brought about.

Twinning [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Genesis 25:24

And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

When her time came to give birth, there were indeed twins in her womb.

Genesis 25:26

And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.

After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.

Genesis 38:27

And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb.

When the time came for Tamar to give birth, there were twins in her womb.

Exodus 26:1

Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.

“You are to construct the tabernacle itself with ten curtains of finely spun linen, each with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and cherubim skillfully worked into them.

Exodus 26:31

And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:

Make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.

Exodus 26:36

And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.

For the entrance to the tent, you are to make a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen.

Exodus 27:9

And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:

You are also to make a courtyard for the tabernacle. On the south side of the courtyard make curtains of finely spun linen, a hundred cubits long on one side,

Exodus 27:16

And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.

The gate of the courtyard shall be twenty cubits long, with a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It shall have four posts and four bases.

Exodus 27:18

The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.

The entire courtyard shall be a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide, with curtains of finely spun linen five cubits high, and with bronze bases.

Exodus 28:6

And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.

They are to make the ephod of finely spun linen embroidered with gold, and with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn.

Exodus 28:8

And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

And the skillfully woven waistband of the ephod must be of one piece, of the same workmanship—with gold, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and with finely spun linen.

Exodus 28:15

And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.

You are also to make a breastpiece of judgment with the same workmanship as the ephod. Construct it with gold, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and with finely spun linen.

Exodus 36:8

And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them.

All the skilled craftsmen among the workmen made the ten curtains for the tabernacle. They were made of finely spun linen, as well as blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, with cherubim skillfully worked into them.

Exodus 36:35

And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.

Next, he made the veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.

Exodus 36:37

And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;

For the entrance to the tent, he made a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen,

Exodus 38:9

And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:

Then he constructed the courtyard. The south side of the courtyard was a hundred cubits long and had curtains of finely spun linen,

Exodus 38:16

All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.

All the curtains around the courtyard were made of finely spun linen.

Exodus 38:18

And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.

The curtain for the entrance to the courtyard was embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It was twenty cubits long and, like the curtains of the courtyard, five cubits high,

Exodus 39:2

And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

Bezalel made the ephod of finely spun linen embroidered with gold, and with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn.

Exodus 39:5

And the curious girdle of his ephod, that was upon it, was of the same, according to the work thereof; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD commanded Moses.

And the skillfully woven waistband of the ephod was of one piece with the ephod, of the same workmanship—with gold, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and with finely spun linen, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.