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A compound or twin crystal consisting of five individuals.

A compound or twin crystal consisting of four individuals.

An imperfect female calf, twinborn with a male.

One of the twins. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Producing twins. [R.] Bailey.

In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers. Gray.

Twins; a pair; a couple. [Obs.] Shak.

ngle, like the knee when bent; as, a geniculate stem; a geniculate ganglion; a geniculate twin crystal.

A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang. Conscience . . . is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels. Tillotson.

appearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle. And all along the forum and up the sacred seat, His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small glancing feet. Macaulay.

A leguminous, twining plant (Apios tuberosa), producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste.

s, to halve an apple; to be or form half of. So far apart their lives are thrown From the twin soul that halves their own. M. Arnold.

Half turned round; half inverted; (Crystallog.) having a twinned structure.

Twin composition in crystals.

Running in the same direction; -- said of stems twining round a support, or of the spiral succession of leaves on stems and their branches.

A climbing plant (Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops).

Intertwined; interlocked; clasped together. Longfellow.

To knit together; to unite closely; to intertwine.

To unite, as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave. Severed into stripes That interlaced each other. Cowper. The epic way is every where interlaced with dialogue. Dryden. Interlacing arches (Arch.), arches, usually circular, so constructed that their archivolt…

To entangle; to intertwine. "Moss and intertangled vines." Longfellow.