TWANG
TWANG, verb intransitive To sound with a quick sharp noise; to make the sound of a string which is stretched and suddenly pulled; as the twanging bows.TWANG, verb transitive To ...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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TWANGING
TWANG'ING, participle present tense Making a sharp sound.1.adjective Contemptibly noisy.
TWANGLE
TWAN'GLE, verb intransitive To twang.
TWANK
TWANK, a corruption of twang.
TWAS
'TWAS, a contraction of it was.
TWATTLE
TWAT'TLE, verb intransitive To prate; to talk much and idly; to gabble; to chatter; as a twattling gossip.TWAT'TLE, verb transitive To pet; to make much of. [Local.]
TWATTLING
TWAT'TLING, participle present tense or adjective Prating; gabbling; chattering.TWAT'TLING, noun The act of prating; idle talk.
TWAY
TWAY, for twain, two. [Not in use.]
TWAY-BLADE
TWA'Y-BLADETWEAGTWEAK, verb transitive It is radically the same word as twitch, and of the same signification.] To twitch; to pinch and pull with a sudden jerk; as, to tweag or ...
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TWEAK
TWEAK, v.t. It is radically the same word as twitch, and of the same signification.] To twitch; to pinch and pull with a sudden jerk; as, to tweag or tweak the nose.
TWEEDLE
TWEE'DLE, verb transitive To handle lightly; used of awkward fiddling.
TWEEL
TWEEL, verb transitive To weave with multiplied leases in the harness, by increasing the number of threads in each split of the reed, and the number of treddles, etc.
TWEEZER-CASE
TWEE'ZER-CASE, noun A case for carrying tweezers.
TWEEZERS
TWEE'ZERS, noun [This seems to be formed on the root of vise, an instrument for pinching.] Nippers; small pinchers used to pluck out hairs.
TWELFTH
TWELFTH, adjective The second after the tenth; the ordinal of twelve.
TWELFTH-TIDE
TWELFTH-TIDE, noun [twelfth and tide.] The twelfth day after christmas.
TWELVE
TWELVE, adjective twelv. The sum of two and ten; twice six; a dozen. twelve men compose a petty jury.
TWELVEMONTH
TWELVEMONTH, noun twelv'month. [twelve and month.] A year, which consists of twelve calendar months.I shall laugh at this a twelvemonth hence.
TWELVEPENCE
TWELVEPENCE, noun twelv'pence. [twelve and pence.] A shilling.
TWELVEPENNY
TWELVEPENNY, adjective twelv'penny. Sold for a shilling; worth a shilling; as a twelve-penny gallery.
TWELVESCORE
TWELVESCORE, adjective twelv'score. [twelve and score.] Twelve times twenty; two hundred and forty.
TWENTIETH
TWEN'TIETH, adjective The ordinal of twenty; as the twentieth year.
TWENTY
TWEN'TY, adjective [Latin decem.]1. Twice ten; as twenty men; twenty years.2. Proverbially, an indefinite number.Maximilian, upon twenty respects, could not have been the man.
TWIBIL
TWI'BIL, noun [two and bil.] A kind of mattock, and a halbert.
TWICE
TWICE, adverb [from two.] Two times.He twice essay'd to cast his son in gold.1. Doubly; as twice the sum. He is twice as fortunate as his neighbor.2.twice is used in composition...
TWIDLE
TWIDLE, for tweedle. [See Tweedle.]