*twe*

prep. [ OE. bytwene, bitweonen, AS. betweónan, betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twā two, akin to Goth. tweihnai two apiece. See Twain, and cf. Atween, Betwixt. ] 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two. [ 1913 Webster ]

If things should go so between them. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Belonging in common to two; shared by both. [ 1913 Webster ]

Castor and Pollux with only one soul between them. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Belonging to, or participated in by, two, and involving reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as, opposition between science and religion. [ 1913 Webster ]

An intestine struggle, open or secret, between authority and liberty. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. With relation to two, as involved in an act or attribute of which another is the agent or subject; as, to judge between or to choose between courses; to distinguish between you and me; to mediate between nations. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. In intermediate relation to, in respect to time, quantity, or degree; as, between nine and ten o'clock. [ 1913 Webster ]

Between decks, the space, or in the space, between the decks of a vessel. --
Between ourselves,
Between you and me,
Between themselves, in confidence; with the understanding that the matter is not to be communicated to others. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Between, Among. Between etymologically indicates only two; as, a quarrel between two men or two nations; to be between two fires, etc. It is however extended to more than two in expressing a certain relation. I . . . hope that between public business, improving studies, and domestic pleasures, neither melancholy nor caprice will find any place for entrance. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ] Among implies a mass or collection of things or persons, and always supposes more than two; as, the prize money was equally divided among the ship's crew. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Intermediate time or space; interval. [ Poetic & R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To unite by a butt weld. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Clote. ] Cocklebur. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Étui. Shenstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A plant (Eryngium fœtidum) supposed to be a remedy for fits. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. Five-twenty bonds of the United States (bearing six per cent interest), issued in 1862, '64, and '65, redeemable after five and payable in twenty years. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) An American species of rockrose (Helianthemum Canadense), sometimes used in medicine as an astringent or aromatic tonic. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It has large yellow flowers which are often sterile, and later it has abundant but inconspicuous flowers which bear seed. It is so called because, late in autumn, crystals of ice shoot from the cracked bark at the root; -- called also frostwort. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A negotiator who acts as a link between parties; an intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- sometimes in a disparaging sense. Shak.
Syn. -- mediator, intermediator, intermediary. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

{ n. [ So called from having been formerly used in assuaging the pain of the gout. ] (Bot.) A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Aegopodium Podagraria); -- called also bishop's weed, ashweed, and herb gerard. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series or time sequence; as, adolescence is an awkward in-between age.
Syn. -- mediate, middle. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. knitted clothing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) See Knotgrass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of less than average weight; specif.: In boxing, wrestling, etc., one weighing not more than 133 pounds (U. S. amateur rules 135 pounds, Eng. 140 pounds). [ wns=1 ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A person of small importance or mental ability, especially one who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous. [ wns=2 ] [ Colloq., Chiefly U. S. ]
Syn. -- whippersnapper, jackanapes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5 ]

3. a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds. [ wns=3 ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Light in weight, as a coin; specif., applied to a man or animal who is a lightweight. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. made of thin cloth, of relatively little weight; -- of clothing or fabrics; as, lightweight fabrics. [ wns=1 ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) A name of several maritime grasses, as the sea sand-reed (Ammophila arundinacea) which is used in Holland to bind the sand of the seacoast dikes (see Beach grass, under Beach); also, the Lygeum Spartum, a Mediterranean grass of similar habit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the time of life between 20 and 30.
Syn. -- twenties. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. 1. To wear out; to consume or destroy by wearing. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To last longer than; to outlast; as, this cloth will outwear the other. “If I the night outwear.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To weary out. Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To weed out. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To exceed in weeping. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To exceed in weight or value. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To pour out. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To issue forth. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. of Outgo. [ 1913 Webster ]

The decade from 1920 to 1929; -- so called because of the occurrence of a prosperous economy and rapid changes in sociological mores as exemplified by speakeasies, the popularity of fast cars and jazz, and the boisterous unconventional behavior of young adults in that period. See also flapper, speakeasy, and second prohibition. [ PJC ]

n. (Bot.) An acrid plant of the genus Polygonum (Polygonum Hydropiper), which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A name for two tropical American weeds (Capraria biflora, and Scoparia dulcis) of the Figwort family. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) (a) An herbaceous composite plant (Eupatorium purpureum), often having hollow stems, and bearing purplish flowers in small corymbed heads. (b) The sea trumpet. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To tweak. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A pinching condition; perplexity; trouble; distress. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This put the old fellow in a rare tweague. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OE. twikken, originally the same word as twicchen; cf. LG. twikken. See Twitch. ] To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch; as, a tweak of the nose. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Trouble; distress; tweag. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A prostitute. [ Obs. ] Brathwait. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Probably a corruption of twills. See Twill. ] A soft and flexible fabric for men's wear, made wholly of wool except in some inferior kinds, the wool being dyed, usually in two colors, before weaving. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Twiddle. ] [ Written also twidle. ] 1. To handle lightly; -- said with reference to awkward fiddling; hence, to influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fiddler brought in with him a body of lusty young fellows, whom he had tweedled into the service. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To twist. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Two things practically alike; -- a phrase coined by John Byrom (1692-1793) in his satire “On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini.” [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. & v. See Twill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Tuyère. [ 1913 Webster ]

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{ } n. [ OE. tweeze, tweese, fr. F. étuis, pl. of étui a case, sheath, box; probably of Teutonic origin; cf. MNG. stuche a wide sleeve in which articles could be carried, OHG. stūhha, G. stauche a short and narrow muff. Cf Etui, Tweezers. ] A surgeon's case of instruments. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ See Tweese. ] Small pinchers used to pluck out hairs, and for other purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ For twelft, OE. twelfte, AS. twelfta. See Twelve. ] 1. Next in order after the eleventh; coming after eleven others; -- the ordinal of twelve. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Constituting, or being one of, twelve equal parts into which anything is divided. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The quotient of a unit divided by twelve; one of twelve equal parts of one whole. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The next in order after the eleventh. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mus.) An interval comprising an octave and a fifth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An ornamented cake distributed among friends or visitors on the festival of Twelfth-night. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Twelfthtide. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The evening of Epiphany, or the twelfth day after Christmas, observed as a festival by various churches. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physics) A unit for the measurement of small intervals of time, such that 1012 (ten trillion) of these units make one second. [ 1913 Webster ]