Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks. Shelley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy glorious household stuff did me entwine. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

With whose imperial laurels might entwine no cypress. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Being one of a pair much resembling one another; standing in the relation of a twin to something else; -- often followed by to or with. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) Double; consisting of two similar and corresponding parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Crystallog.) Composed of parts united according to some definite law of twinning. See Twin, n., 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

Twin boat, or
Twin ship (Naut.), a vessel whose deck and upper works rest on two parallel hulls. --
Twin crystal. See Twin, n., 4. --
Twin flower (Bot.), a delicate evergreen plant (Linnaea borealis) of northern climates, which has pretty, fragrant, pendulous flowers borne in pairs on a slender stalk. --
Twin-screw steamer, a steam vessel propelled by two screws, one on either side of the plane of the keel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. (Astron.) A sign and constellation of the zodiac; Gemini. See Gemini. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A person or thing that closely resembles another. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Crystallog.) A compound crystal composed of two or more crystals, or parts of crystals, in reversed position with reference to each other. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The relative position of the parts of a twin may be explained by supposing one part to be revolved 180° about a certain axis (called the twinning axis), this axis being normal to a plane (called the twinning plane) which is usually one of the fundamental planes of the crystal. This revolution brings the two parts into parallel position, or vice versa. A contact twin is one in which the parts are united by a plane surface, called the composition face, which is usually the same as the twinning plane. A penetration twin is one in which the parts interpenetrate each other, often very irregularly. Twins are also called, according to form, cruciform, geniculated, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be born at the same birth. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Still we moved
Together, twinned, as horse's ear and eye. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To separate into two parts; to part; to divide; hence, to remove; also, to strip; to rob. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The life out of her body for to twin. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Typhon huge, ending in snaky twine. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of twining or winding round. J. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

Twine reeler, a kind of machine for twisting twine; a kind of mule, or spinning machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let me twine
Mine arms about that body. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To wind about; to embrace; to entwine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To change the direction of. [ Obs. ] Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To mingle; to mix. [ Obs. ] Crashaw. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander. [ 1913 Webster ]

As rivers, though they bend and twine,
Still to the sea their course incline. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To turn round; to revolve. [ Obs. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally; as, many plants twine. [ 1913 Webster ]

When a man is past his sense,
There's no way to reduce him thence,
But twinging him by the ears or nose,
Or laying on of heavy blows. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains. [ 1913 Webster ]

The gnat . . . twinged him [ the lion ] till he made him tear
himself, and so mastered him. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

A master that gives you . . . twinges by the ears. L' Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side. “ A twinge for my own sin.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The chaffinch. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The owl fell a moping and twinkling. L' Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

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2. To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate. [ 1913 Webster ]

These stars do not twinkle when viewed through telescopes that have large apertures. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The western sky twinkled with stars. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Suddenly, with twinkle of her eye,
The damsel broke his misintended dart. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A brief flash or gleam, esp. when rapidly repeated. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The time of a wink; a twinkling. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a sparkling; as, the twinkling of the stars. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The time of a wink; a moment; an instant. [ 1913 Webster ]

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, . . . the dead shall be raised incorruptible. 1 Cor. xv. 52. [ 1913 Webster ]

Polysynthetic twinning, repeated twinning of crystal lamellae, as that of the triclinic feldspars. --
Repeated twinning, twinning of more than two crystals, or parts of crystals. --
Twinning axis,
Twinning plane. See the Note under Twin, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

It requires a long and powerful counter sympathy in a nation to untwine the ties of custom which bind a people to the established and the old. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]