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Any plant which twines about a support.

pinch; to tweak. 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.

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

To twinkle. [Obs.]

To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink. The owl fell a moping and twinkling. L' Estrange.

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. Holland.

See Jeffersonia.

Closely resembling; being a counterpart. -- Twin"like`ness, n.

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. Tusser.

eference 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. Polysynthetic twinning, repeated twinning of crystal lamellæ, as that of the triclinic feldspars. -- Repeated twinning, twinning…

A domestic animal two winters old. [Prov. Eng.]

One of the posterior wings of an insect.

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

Against the wind.

To wind up. Spenser.

The quality or state of being viewy, or of having unpractical views.