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Capable of being thrown or cranked in two directions, usually opposite to one another; as, a two-throw crank; a two-throw switch.

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

Double-tongued; deceitful. Sandys.

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

Double; duplicate; multiplied by two; as, a twofold nature; a twofold sense; a twofold argument.

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.

In two; in twain; asunder. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A woman who manages a boat.

A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material.

A plant (Herniaria glabra) supposed to be valuable for the cure of hernia or rupture.

The art or occupation of working upon wooden furniture requiring nice workmanship; also, such furniture.

Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel. Johnson.

An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.

t off the flower buds. During the day, they conceal themselves in the earth. The common cutworms are the larvæ of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths.

ating as on water. The current of humanity, with its heavy proportion of very useless driftwood. New Your Times.

Any worm belonging to the Plathelminthes; also, sometimes applied to the planarians.

An Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis.

Worn by, or weared in, the feet; as, a footworn path; a footworn traveler.

ute play of light andshade, dark and light, or the like. Banqueting on the turf in the fretwork of shade and sunshine. Macaulay.