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To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours. The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between. Shak.

One more than three; twice two.

Four and ten more; twice seven.

air of which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over. [Written also gavotte.]

Two in a year; semiannual. -- adv. Twice in a year; semiannually.

nder the same roof and compose a family. And calls, without affecting airs, His household twice a day to prayers. Swift.

two or more; done or produced by two or more working together. I read this joint effusion twice over. T. Hook.

the English Church, and, figuratively, stands for the office itself. A saint in crape is twice in lawn. Pope.

A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.

A large, flattened corpuscle, twice the diameter of the ordinary red corpuscle, found in considerable numbers in the blood in profound anæmia.

Having twice as many stamens as petals, those of the outer set being opposite the petals; -- said of flowers. Gray.

By limitation to the number one; for one time; not twice nor any number of times more than one. Ye shall . . . go round about the city once. Josh. vi. 3. Trees that bear mast are fruitful but once in two years. Bacon.

by an extravagant price or hard conditions. [Obs.] What madman would o'erstand his market twice Dryden.

A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second. Longfellow.

in sets, with five parts in each set, as a flower with five sepals, five petals, five, or twice five, stamens, and five pistils.

Arrived at puberty. That . . . the men (are) pubescent at the age of twice seven, is accounted a punctual truth. Sir T. Browne.

To multiply by four; to increase fourfold; to double; to double twice. A. Smith.

Fourfold; folded or doubled twice. Quadruplex system (Electric Telegraph), a system by which four messages, two in each direction, may be sent simultaneously over the wire.

To make fourfold; to double twice; to quadruple.

lculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden.