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

h. Tillotson. Æsop minds men of their errors, without twitting them for what is amiss. L'Estrange.

d a twittering towards a second husband, took a gossiping companion to manage the job. L'Estrange.

Tattle; gabble. L'Estrange.

Not to be accounted for; inexplicable; not consonant with reason or rule; strange; mysterious. -- Un`ac*count"a*ble*ness}, n. -- Un`ac*count"a*bly, adv.

Not usual; uncommon; strange; new. What unaccustomed cause procures her hither Shak.

Not usual; unfamiliar; strange. [Obs.] And the unacquainted light began to fear. Spenser.

Not canny; unsafe; strange; weird; ghostly. Sir W. Scott. -- Un*can"ni*ness, n. G. Eliot.

To take out of a case or covering; to remove a case or covering from; to uncover. L'Estrange.

r shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.

Unknown; strange, or foreign; unusual, or surprising; distant in manner; reserved. [Scot.]

Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage.

Unfamiliar; strange; hence, mysterious; dreadful; also, odd; awkward; boorish; as, uncouth manners. "Uncouth in guise and gesture." I. Taylor. I am surprised with an uncouth fear. Shak. Thus sang the uncouth swain. Milton.

Unknown; strange. [Obs.] -- n.

To profane; to desecrate. The vanity unhallows the virtue. L'Estrange.

Odd; strange; ugly; old; uncouth. [Prov. Eng.]

Unknown; strange. [Obs. or Scot.] W. Browne.

Not exemplified a second time. [Obs.] "Strange and unseconded shapes of worms." Sir T. Browne.

Not wonted; unaccustomed; unused; not made familiar by practice; as, a child unwonted to strangers. Milton.

y; to live up to engagements. As a boar was whetting his teeth, up comes a fox to him. L'Estrange.