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circumvolution or insertion of one part of the gut within the 
other. Arbuthnot. 
TWIST, s. Any thing made by convolution, or winding 
two bodies together. 
Minerva nurs’d him 
Within a twist of twining osiers laid. Addison. 
A single string of a cord.—Winding a thin string about 
the work hazards its breaking, by the fretting of the several 
twists against one another. Moxon.-— A cord; a string. 
About his chin the twist 
He ty’d, and soon the strangl’d soul dismiss’d. Dryden: 
Contortion; writhe.—Not the least turn or twist in the 
fibres of any one animal, which does not render them more 
proper for that particular animal’s way of life than any other 
cast or texture. Addison. —The manner of twisting.—Jack 
shrunk at first sight of it; he found fault with the length, 
the thickness, and the twist. Arbuthnot. — [twist, Teut.] 
A twig; a branch. Obsolete. 
Nor bough, nor branch, the Saracens therefore. 
Nor twist, nor twig, cut from that sacred spring. Fairfax. 
TWI'STER, s. One who twists; a ropemaker. The in- 
strument of twisting.—He, twirling his twister, makes a 
twist of the twine. Wallis. 
TWISTON, or Twisleton, a township of England, in 
Lancashire; 4 miles east-by-north of Clitheroe. 
To TWIT, v. a. [idweitjan, M. Goth.; ebjutan. Sax.; 
Smolando Goth, twia vel twita, idem; ab antiquiss. Suio- 
Goth. vita, vitii aliquem notare. Serenius.~] To sneer; to 
flout; to reproach. 
When I protest true loyalty to her, 
She twits me with my falsehood to my friend. Shakspeare. 
To TWITCH, v. a. [cpiccian, Saxon.] To vellicate; 
to pluck with a quick motion ; to snatch ; to pluck with a 
hasty motion. 
With a furious leap 
She sprung from bed, disturbed in her mind, 
And fear’d at every step a twitching spright hehind. 
Dryden. 
TWITCH, s. A quick pull; a sudden vellication. 
But Hudibras gave him a twitch. 
As quick as lightning in the breech. Hudibras. 
A contraction of the fibres. 
Other confederate pairs 
Contract the.fibres, and the twitch produce, 
Which gently pushes on the grateful food 
To the wide stomach by its hollow road. B/aclcmore. 
TWI'TCHGRASS, s. A plant.— Twitchgrass is a weed 
that keeps some land loose, hollow, and draws away the 
virtue of the ground. Mortimer. 
TWITCHEN, a parish of England, in Devonshire; 5| 
miles north-east-by-east of South Molton. 
TW1THAM, a hamlet of England, in the parishes of 
Goodnestan and Wingham, Kent. 
To TWl'TTER, v. n. [zittern. Germ., to tremble .] To 
make a sharp tremulous intermitted noise. 
They twitter cheerful, till the vernal months 
Invite them back. Thomson. 
To be suddenly moved with any inclination; to be agi¬ 
tated by expectation or suspence. A low word. —A widow, 
which had a twittering toward a second husband, took a 
gossiping companion to manage the job. L'Estrange. — 
To burst into a smile or laugh; to simper.—O the young 
handsome wenches, how they twitter'd! Beaum. and Ft. 
TWl'TTER, s. Any motion or disorder of passion; such 
as a violent fit of laughing, or fit of fretting. 
The ancient errant knights 
Won all their ladies hearts in fights, 
And cut whole giants into fritters. 
To put them into amorous twitters. Hudibras. 
An upbraider. 
TWO 
TWITTINGLY, adv. With reproach; so as to up¬ 
braid.—Sir Thomas More’s lady, being sick of daughters, 
prayed importunately for a boy, and nothing but a boy 
would serve; whereupon she had a boy, which, as Sir Tho¬ 
mas wittily and twittingly told her, would be a boy, so 
long as he lived ! Junius. 
TWITTLETW'ATTLE, s. [a ludicrous reduplication of 
twattle. ] Tattle; gabble. A vile word. —Insipid twittle- 
twattles, frothy jests, and jingling witticisms, inure us to a 
misunderstanding of things. L'Estrange. 
TWIVERTON, a parish of England, in Somersetshire; 
2 miles west-by-south of Bath. Population 728. 
’TWIXT. A contraction of betwixt.'—Twilight, short 
arbiter 'twixt day and night. Milton. 
TWIZEL, a hamlet of England, in Northumberland ; 
8 miles south-west-by-west of Morpeth. Here is Twizel 
castle, near the junction of the rivers Till and Tweed. 
TWO, adj. [twai, Goth.; epu, Sax.] One and one.— 
Fifteen chambers were to lodge us, two and two together. 
Bacon. —It is used in composition.—A rational animal bet¬ 
ter described man’s essence, than a fwo-legged animal, with 
broad nails, and without feathers. Locke. 
TWO BROTHERS, two small islands in the Eastern seas, 
near the west coast of Borneo. Lat. 1. 32. S. long. 109. 
13. E.—2. Two small islands in the Eastern seas ; 27 miles 
from the east point of the island of Madura. Lat. 6. 50. S. 
long. 114. 43. E.—3. Two small islands in the Eastern seas, 
near the west coast of the island of Celebes. Lat. 4. 40. S. 
long. 119. 22. E.—-4. Two small islands in Cook’s Straits, 
near the north-east coast of the southern island of New 
Zealand. Lat. 40. 5. S. long. 184. 35. E. 
TWO'EDGED, adj. Having an edge on either side. 
Clarissa drew, with tempting grace, 
A two-edged weapon from her shining case. Pope. 
TWO'FOLD, adj. Double; two of the same kind; or 
two different things coexisting.—Time and place taken for 
distinguishable portions of space and duration, have each of 
them a twofold acceptation. Locke. 
TWO'FOLD, adv. Doubly.—A proselyte you make 
twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. St. Matt. 
TWO-FOLD BAY, a bay on the east coast of New 
Holland. Lat. 37. 5. S. 
TWO'HANDED, adj. That employs both hands. 
With huge two-handed sway. 
Brandish’d aloft the horrid edge came down, 
Wide wasting. Milton. 
Large; bulky. 
If little, then she’s life and soul all o’er; 
An Amazon, the large twohanded whore. Dryden. 
TWO-HEADED ISLAND, a small island near the south 
coast of Ireland, and county of Kerry; 1 mile west of 
Lamb’s Head. 
TWO-HEADED POINT, a cape on the south-west coast 
of the island of Kodiak, in the North Pacific ocean, com¬ 
posing a small island which terminates to the north-east by a 
low flat rocky point. South-westward from Two-Headed 
Island the coast is low, and appears to be compact; but im¬ 
mediately to the northward of it the shores descend abruptly 
into the sea, appear to be much broken, and form an ex¬ 
tensive sound, of which the flat rocky point may be con¬ 
sidered as its south-west point of entrance. Lat. 56. 54. N. 
long. 207. 5. E. 
TWO HILLS, a small island among the New Hebrides, 
in the South Pacific ocean. Lat. 17. 15. S. long. 160. 
38. E. 
TWO KEYS, two small islands in the bay of Honduras. 
Lat. 17. 30. N. long. 87. 52. W. 
TWO LICK CREEK, a river of the United States, in 
Indiana county, Pennsylvania, which runs south into the 
Conemaugh. 
TWO SISTERS, two small islands in the Eastern seas, 
covered with wood, and surrounded by a reef of coral rocks, 
Lat. 5. S. long. 106. 12. E.—Also two small islands in the 
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