To beat with twigs.

Made of twigs; wicker.

A fornicator.

Of or pertaining to a twig or twigs; like a twig or twigs; full of twigs; abounding with shoots.

p. p. of Twitch.

imp. of Twitch.

Having no twigs.

Full of, or abounding in, twigs; twiggy.

Seen or done by twilight.

An appearance of diagonal lines or ribs produced in textile fabrics by causing the weft threads to pass over one and under two, or over one and under three or more, warp threads, instead of over one and under the next in regular succession, as in plain weaving.

A machine for cleansing or loosening wool by the action of a revolving cylinder covered with long iron spikes or teeth; a willy or willying machine; -- called also twilly devil, and devil. See Devil, n., 6, and Willy.

A quilt.

To depart from a place or thing.

Born at the same birth.

To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved.

Any plant which twines about a support.

A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.

The act of one who, or that which, twines; (Bot.) the act of climbing spirally.

A wink; a twinkling.

A closing or opening, or a quick motion, of the eye; a wink or sparkle of the eye.

One who, or that which, twinkles, or winks; a winker; an eye.

The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle.

See Jeffersonia.

Closely resembling; being a counterpart.

A young or little twin, especially a twin lamb.

Composed of parts united according to a law of twinning. See Twin, n., 4.

One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins.

The assemblage of two or more crystals, or parts of crystals, in reversed position with reference to each other in accordance with some definite law; also, rarely, in artificial twinning (accomplished for example by pressure), the process by which this reversal is brought about.

A domestic animal two winters old.

To sing, or twitter.

A vagabond musician.

The act of twirling; a rapid circular motion; a whirl or whirling; quick rotation.

The act of twisting; a contortion; a flexure; a convolution; a bending.

imp. of Twist.

Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted.

One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.

Crooked; tortuous; hence, perverse; unfair; dishonest.

a. n. from Twist.

To vex by bringing to notice, or reminding of, a fault, defect, misfortune, or the like; to revile; to reproach; to upbraid; to taunt; as, he twitted his friend of falsehood.

The act of twitching; a pull with a jerk; a short, sudden, quick pull; as, a twitch by the sleeve.

One who, or that which, twitches.

The European tree sparrow. The mountain linnet (Linota flavirostris).

The meadow pipit.

The act of twittering; a small, tremulous, intermitted noise, as that made by a swallow.

The act of one who, or that which, twitters.

In a twitting manner; with upbraiding.

Tattle; gabble.

The sum of one and one; the number next greater than one, and next less than three; two units or objects.

Having two distinct capsules; bicapsular.

Divided about half way from the border to the base into two segments; bifid.

A two-stroke cycle for an internal-combustion engine.

A vessel of war carrying guns on two decks.

Having two edges, or edges on both sides; as, a two-edged sword.

Measuring two feet; two feet long, thick, or wide; as, a two-foot rule.

Divided into two parts, somewhat after the manner of a fork; dichotomous.

Employing two hands; as, the two-hand alphabet. See Dactylology.

Having two hands; -- often used as an epithet equivalent to large, stout, strong, or powerful.

Having two lips.

Having or bearing two names; as, two-name paper, that is, negotiable paper on which at least two persons are severally liable as separate makers, or, usually, one as maker and one as indorser.

Divided from the border to the base into two distinct parts; bipartite.

Consisting of two thicknesses, as cloth; double.

Having two ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine in which the admission of the mixture to the crank case is through a suction valve.

Alternately disposed on exactly opposite sides of the stem so as to from two ranks; distichous.

Having two sides only; hence, double-faced; hypocritical.

Adapted for producing or for receiving either of two speeds; -- said of a power-transmitting device.

A kind of round dance in march or polka time; also, a piece of music for this dance.

Capable of being thrown or cranked in two directions, usually opposite to one another; as, a two-throw crank; a two-throw switch. Having two crank set near together and opposite to one another; as, a two-throw crank shaft.

Designating, or pert. to, a gear for reducing or increasing a velocity ratio two to one.

Double-tongued; deceitful.

Serving to connect at will one pipe or channel with either of two others; as, a two-way cock.

In a double degree; doubly.

A small coin, and money of account, in England, equivalent to two pennies, -- minted to a fixed annual amount, for almsgiving by the sovereign on Maundy Thursday.

Of the value of twopence.

See Twayblade.

Something serving to tie or secure.

Any theory which conceives chance as an objective reality; esp., a theory of evolution which considers that variation may be purely fortuitous.

Of or pertaining to Tycho Brahe, or his system of astronomy.

The title by which the shogun, or former commander in chief of the Japanese army, was known to foreigners.

Same as Tidy.

See Tie, the proper orthography.

One who ties, or unites.

See Typhoon.

A tiger.

The act or process of washing ores in a buddle.

See 2d Tike.

One of the pads on the under surface of the toes of birds.

See 2d Tiler.

A tribe of ungulates comprising the camels.

An intrusion of one vegetable cell into the cavity of another, sometimes forming there an irregular mass of cells.

A kind of kettledrum.

A hollow water-cooled iron casting in the upper part of the archway in which the dam stands.

A drum.

Tympanic.

The tympanic bone.

One who beats a drum.

A flatulent distention of the belly; tympany.

Of, pertaining to, or affected with, tympanites.

Inflammation of the lining membrane of the middle ear.

To stretch, as a skin over the head of a drum; to make into a drum or drumhead, or cause to act or sound like a drum.

A kettledrum; -- chiefly used in the plural to denote the kettledrums of an orchestra. See Kettledrum.

Of or pertaining to the tympanum and the hyoidean arch. The proximal segment in the hyoidean arch, becoming a part of the styloid process of the temporal bone in adult man.

The ear drum, or middle ear. Sometimes applied incorrectly to the tympanic membrane. See Ear. A chamber in the anterior part of the syrinx of birds.

A flatulent distention of the belly; tympanites.

To shut; to close.

Anxiety; tine.

Small; tiny.

Relating to a type or types; belonging to types; serving as a type; typical.

To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.

One who, or that which, sets type; a compositor; a machine for setting type.

The act or art of setting type.

To write with a typewriter.

An instrument for writing by means of type, a typewheel, or the like, in which the operator makes use of a sort of keyboard, in order to obtain printed impressions of the characters upon paper.

The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter.

Inflammation of the caecum.

A fold of the wall which projects into the cavity of the intestine in bivalve mollusks, certain annelids, starfishes, and some other animals.

Of or pertaining to Typhoeus (t/*f/"/s), the fabled giant of Greek mythology, having a hundred heads; resembling Typhoeus.

Of or pertaining to typhus; resembling typhus; of a low grade like typhus; as, typhoid symptoms.

Pertaining to typhoid fever and malaria; as, typhomalarial fever, a form of fever having symptoms both of malarial and typhoid fever.

A low delirium common in typhus fever.

According to Hesiod, the son of Typhoeus, and father of the winds, but later identified with him.