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A small, flexible twig or rod. Mauritania, on the fifth medal, leads a horse with something like a thread; in her other hand she holds a switch. Addison.

lied to the ovenbirds of the genus Furnarius). It builds a very large and complex nest of twigs and thorns in a bush or tree.

tod, the brock. B. Jonson. Tod stove, a close stove adapted for burning small round wood, twigs, etc. [U.S.] Knight.

erous species of small leaping hemipterous insects which live chiefly on the branches and twigs of trees, and injure them by sucking the sap. Many of them are very odd in shape, the prothorax being often prolonged upward or forward in the form of a spine or crest. -- Tree jobber (Zoöl.), a woodpecker. [Obs.] -- Tree k…

A tuft, as of grass, twigs, hair, or the like; especially, a dense tuft or bunch of grass or sedge. Such laying of the hair in tussocks and tufts. Latimer.

A twig. [Obs.] Chaucer. Fairfax. Gain twist, or Gaining twist (Firearms), twist of which the pitch is less, and the inclination greater, at the muzzle than at the breech. -- Twist drill, a drill the body of which is twisted like that of an auger. See Illust. of Drill. -- Uniform twist (Firearms), a twist of which the…

A twig or branchlet. [Obs.] Spenser.

Of or pertaining to twigs; consisting of twigs; producing twigs.

Of or pertaining to twigs; made of pliant twigs. "In the hive's vimineous dome." Prior.

Shaped like a little twig or rod.

A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods. And there he built with wattles from the marsh A little lonely church in days of yore. Tennyson.

The act or process of binding or platting with twigs; also, the network so formed. Made with a wattling of canes or sticks. Dampier.

A kind of trap or snare for fish, made of twigs. [Obs.] Carew.

stralian aborigines, consisting of a cigar-shaped stick fastened at one end to a flexible twig. It weighs in all about two ounces, and is about two feet long.

A small bunch of grass, straw, twigs, hair, or the like, used for a brush; hence, a brush or small besom, as of broom corn.

A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe.

A texture of osiers, twigs, or rods; articles made of such a texture.

A rope or halter made of flexible twigs, or withes, as of birch. [Scot.]

A flexible, slender twig or branch used as a band; a willow or osier twig; a withy.

The dried twigs of a Syrian tree (Balsamodendron Gileadense). U. S. Disp.