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Two; twain. [Obs.] Spenser.

Any one of several orchidaceous plants which have only two leaves, as the species of Listera and of Liparis. [Written also twyblade.]

A border of greensward left round the margin of a plowed field. Ray.

A way or road for carts.

By way of, or along, the coast.

A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle. Cowell. Burrill.

A passage for pedestrians only.

An opening for the hoist, or

At least; at all events. [Colloq.] At leastways, or At leastwise, at least. [Obs.] Fuller.

A way out; exit. [R.] In divers streets and outways multiplied. P. Fletcher.

delay. He took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi. . . . And straightway the damsel arose. Mark v. 41,42.

Straightway. [Obs.]

Straightway; at once. [Obs.] The same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it. Matt. xiii. 20.

balanced drawbridge, which is opened by sinking the counterpoise and thus lifting the footway into the air.

show of fireceness or defiance; to bristle. [Obs.] To brustle up, to bristle up. [Obs.] Otway.

; to lose life or force. [Obs.] So iron, as soon as it is out of the fire, deadeth straightway. Bacon.

Straightway; next in order; without delay; immediately. "Will she go now to bed' Directly.'" Shak.

e as Chthonophagia. -- Dirt pie, clay or mud molded by children in imitation of pastry. Otway (1684). -- To eat dirt, to submit in a meanly humble manner to insults; to eat humble pie.

that which, has power to dissolve or dissipate. Thou kind dissolver of encroaching care. Otway.

A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.