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To turn round. 
O friends ! 
Some one abides within here, that commends 
The place to us, and breathes a voice divine: 
As she some web wrought, or her spindles twine, 
She cherisht with her song. Chapman. 
TWINE, s. A twisted thread. 
A pointed sword hung threatening o’er his head, 
Sustain’d but by a slender twine of thread. Cry dm. 
Twist; convolution. 
Not all the gods beside 
Longer dare abide. 
Not Typhon huge ending in snaky twine. Milton. 
Embrace ; act of convolving itself round. 
Everlasting hate 
The vine to ivy bears, but with am’rous twine 
Clasps the tall elm. Philips _ 
TW1NEHAM, a parish of England, in Sussex; 5 miles 
south-west of Cuckfield. 
TWINEING, a parish of England, in the county of Glou¬ 
cester ; 3 miles north of Tewkesbury. On an eminence 
here above the Severn is an encampment consisting of several 
acres of ground, and fortified all round with double en¬ 
trenchments; it is supposed to have been a Roman station. 
To TWINGE, v. a. [ zwingen , German ; twinge, Dan.] 
To torment with sudden and short pain.—The gnat charg’d 
into the nostrils of the lion, and there twing'd him till he 
made him tear himself, and so master’d him. L'Estrange. 
—To pinch ; to tweak. 
When a man is past his sense, 
There’s no way to reduce him thence. 
But twinging him by th’ ears and nose, 
Or laying on of heavy blows. Iludibras. 
TWINGE, s. Short sudden sharp pain.-—The wickedness 
of this old villain startles me, and gives me a twinge for my 
own sin, though far short of his. Dry den. —A tweak; a 
pinch.—How can you fawn upon a master that gives you 
so many blows and twinges by the ears? L'Estrange. 
TWINK, s. [See Twinkle.] The motion of an eye ; 
a moment. Not in use. 
She hung about my neck, and kiss on kiss 
She vied so fast, protesting oath on oath. 
That in a twink she won me to her love. Shakspeare. 
To TWI'NKLE, v. n. [epmehan, Sax.] To sparkle; 
to flash irregularly ; to shine with intermitted light; to shine 
faintly; to quiver.—These stars do not twinkle when 
viewed through telescopes which have large apertures: for 
the rays of light which pass through divers parts of the 
aperture, tremble each of them apart; and by means of 
their various, and sometimes contrary tremors, fall at one 
and the same time upon different points in the bottom of 
the eye. Newton. —To open and shut the eye by turns.— 
The owl fell a moping and twinkling. L'Estrange. —To 
play irregularly. 
His eyes will twinkle, and his tongue will roll, 
As though he beckon’d, and call’d back his soul. Donne. 
TWI'NKLE, or Twi'nkling, s. A sparkling intermit¬ 
ting light. A motion of the eye. 
Suddenly, with twinkle of her eye, 
The damsel broke his misintended dart. Spenser. 
A short space, such as is taken up by a motion of the eye. 
Money can thy wants at will supply, 
Shields, steeds, and arms, and all things for thee meet, 
It can pourvey in twinkling of an eye. Spenser. 
TWI'NLING, s. [diminutive of twin.] A twin lamb ; a 
lamb of two brought at a birth. — Twin lings increase bring. 
Tusser. 
TWI'NNED, part. adj. Born at the same birth.— 
Twinn'd brothers of one womb. Shakspeare.—- Like as 
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twins; paired.—.The twinn'd stones upon the number’d 
beach. Shakspeare. —United. 
Since thy original lapse, true liberty 
Is lost, which always with right reason dwells 
Twinn'd, and from her hath no dividual being. Milton. 
TWI'NNER, s. A breeder of twins. 
Ewes yeerely by twinning rich maisters do make, 
The lambe of such twinners for breeders go take. Tusser. 
TWINS, two small islands in the Eastern seas, near the 
island of Paraguay. Lat. 9. 18. N. long. 118. 3. E. 
TWINS, two small islands in the Eastern seas, near the 
north coast of the island of Flores. Lat. 8. 2. S. long. 122. 
33. E. 
TWINSTEAD, a parish of England, in Essex; 4| miles 
north-east of Halsted. 
TWI'NTER, s. [epy r -pintp. Sax., duos annos natus.] A 
beast of two winters old. North. Grose. 
To TWIRE, v. n. [perhaps the old word for twitter.] 
To flutter; to take short flights with great agitation of the 
wings. This is clearly the primary meaning. In the follow¬ 
ing example, the word has been mistaken by Tyrwhitt, 
Steevens, Mason, and others, for “ to sing or murmur with 
a gentle sound.”—If thilke birde, skipping out of her straite 
cage, seeth the agreeable shadowes of the wodes, she defoul- 
eth with her fete here mete ishad, and seketh on morning 
only the wode, and twireth desiring the wode with her 
swete voice. Chaucer. —To be moved with quick vibra¬ 
tions; to quiver; to twinkle.—When sparkling stars twire 
not, thou gild’st the even. Shakspeare. —To be in a kind 
of flutter; to be moved to smile or laugh; to twitter.—I saw 
the wench that t.wir'd and twinkled at thee. Beaum. and 
FI. —To make flexures or windings.—The sun—with fervent 
eye looks through the twyring glades. Drayton. 
To TWIRL, v. a. To turn round; to move by a quick 
rotation. 
See ruddy maids. 
Some taught with dextrous hand to twirl the wheel. 
Dodsley. 
To TWIRL, ». n. To revolve with a quick motion. 
TWIRL, s. Rotation; circular motion; twist; convo¬ 
lution.—The twirl on this is different from that of the 
others; this being an heterostropha, the twirls turning from 
the right hand to the left. Woodward. 
TWISEL, a township of England, in that division of Dur¬ 
ham called Norhainshire; 4 miles north-east-by-north of 
Coldstream, in Scotland. 
I'o TWIST, v. a. [getpiyan, Saxon; twisten, Dutch.] 
To form by complication; to form by convolution. 
Do but despair, 
And if thou want’st a cord, the smallest thread 
That ever spider twisted from her womb, 
Will strangle thee. Shakspeare. 
To contort; to writhe.—Eilher double it into a pyramidi- 
cal, or twist it into a serpentine form. Pope. —To wreathe; 
to wind; to encircle by something round about.—There are 
pillars of smoke twisted about with wreaths of flame. Bur¬ 
net. —To form; to weave. 
If thou dost love fair Hero, cherish it. 
And thou shah have her: was’t not to this end 
That thou began’st to twist so fine a story ? Shakspeare. 
To unite by intertexture of parts. 
All know how prodigal 
Of thy great soul thou art, longing to twist 
Bays with that ivy, which so early kist 
Thy youthful temples. Waller. 
To unite; to insinuate.'—When avarice twists itself, not 
only with the practice of men, but the doctrines of the 
church ; when ecclesiastics dispute for money, the mischief 
seems fatal. Dec. of Chr. Piety. 
To TWIST, v. n. To be contorted; to be convolved.— 
In an ileus, commonly called the twisting of the guts, is a 
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