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Being one of two born at a birth; as, a twin brother or sister.

Born at the same birth.

A twist; a convolution. Typhon huge, ending in snaky twine. Milton.

Any plant which twines about a support.

o pinch; to tweak. When a man is past his sense, There's no way to reduce him thence, But twinging him by the ears or nose, Or laying on of heavy blows. Hudibras.

und something; twisting; embracing; climbing by winding about a support; as, the hop is a twinning plant.

To twinkle. [Obs.]

To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink. The owl fell a moping and twinkling. L' Estrange.

One who, or that which, twinkles, or winks; a winker; an eye.

The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle. Holland.

See Jeffersonia.

Closely resembling; being a counterpart. -- Twin"like`ness, n.

A young or little twin, especially a twin lamb.

Composed of parts united according to a law of twinning. See Twin, n., 4.

One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins. Tusser.

reference to each other in accordance with some definite law; also, rarely, in artificial twinning (accomplished for example by pressure), the process by which this reversal is brought about. Polysynthetic twinning, repeated twinning of crystal lamellæ, as that of the triclinic feldspars. -- Repeated twinning, twinnin…

A domestic animal two winters old. [Prov. Eng.]

Shaped like a bat's wing; as, a bat's-wing burner.

To free from being entwined or twisted. Shelley.

A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps. Beau. & Fl.