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A small wig for the top of the head; a toupee.

A small wig, or a toppiece of a wig. Her powdered hair is turned backward over a toupee. G. Eliot.

; also, any high headdress. Lay trains of amorous intrigues In towers, and curls, and periwigs. Hudibras.

rous 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 ka…

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.

Want of science or knowledge; ignorance. [Obs.] If that any wight ween a thing to be otherwise than it is, it is not only unscience, but it is deceivable opinion. Chaucer.

A large wig that shades the face. [Obs.]

h; foul talk. [Archaic] He never yet not vileinye ne said In all his life, unto no manner wight. Chaucer. In our modern language, it [foul language] is termed villainy, as being proper for rustic boors, or men of coarsest education and employment. Barrow. Villainy till a very late day expressed words foul and disgracef…

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.

was vulnerable in his heel; and there will be wanting a Paris to infix the dart. Dr. T. Dwight.

a specific sense, to guard during the day time. Whose gates he found fast shut, no living wight To ward the same. Spenser.

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.

on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend. That wicked wight his days doth wear. Spenser. The waters wear the stones. Job xiv. 19.

See Wigwam. [R.]

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