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An instrument with a hinged claw, -- used for extracting teeth with a twist.

To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose. Shak.

To twist. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A slight twist with the fingers.

A twist; a convolution. Typhon huge, ending in snaky twine. Milton.

Winding around something; twisting; embracing; climbing by winding about a support; as, the hop is a twinning plant.

A twisted filament; a thread. [Obs.] Locke.

A twist; a convolution. Woodward.

ich passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse. By twisting the stick the compression is made sufficiently painful to keep the animal quiet during a slight surgical operation. J. H. Walsh.

To twist about, as if boneless. [R.] Milton.

To untwist; as, to unlay a rope.

To take out the folds or twists of, as something previously platted; to unfold; to unwreathe.

To untwist, as something spun.

To untwist; to separate, as that which is twined or twisted; to disentangle; to untie. 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.

To untwist; to undo. Ash.

To wind off; to loose or separate, as what or convolved; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread; to unwind a ball of yarn.

To untwist, uncoil, or untwine, as anything wreathed.

a worm; as, the vermicular, or peristaltic, motion of the intestines. See Peristaltic. "A twisted form vermicular." Cowper.

To twist; to weave. [R.] Some English wool, vexed in a Belgian loom. Dryden.

Any twisting or displacement of the intestines causing obstruction; ileus. See Ileus.