KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

TWIN, noun

1. One of two young produced at a birth by an animal that ordinarily brings but one; used mostly in the plural, twins; applied to the young of beasts, as well as to human beings.

2. A sign of the zodiac; Gemini.

3. One very much resembling another.

TWIN, adjective Noting one of two born at a birth; as a twin brother or sister.

1. Very much resembling.

2. In botany, swelling out into two protuberances, as an anther or germ.

TWIN, verb intransitive To be born at the same birth.

1. To bring two at once.

2. To be paired; to be suited. [This verb is little used.]

TWIN, verb transitive To separate into two parts.

TWIN'-BORN, adjective [twin and born.] Born at the same birth.

This term is used in the Revised Version of (Acts 28:11) for CASTOR AND POLLUX AND POLLUX, which see.

TWINE, verb transitive

1. To twist; to wind, as one thread or cord around another, or as any flexible substance around another, or as any flexible substance around another body; as fine twined linen. Exodus 39:2.

2. To unite closely; to cling to; to embrace.

3. To gird; to wrap closely about.

Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine

TWINE, verb intransitive To unite closely, or by interposition of parts.

Friends now fast sworn, who twine in love--

1. To wind; to bend; to make turns.

As rivers, though they bend and twine--

2. To turn round; as, her spindles twine

TWINE, noun A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together; used for binding small parcels, and for sewing sails to their bolt-ropes, etc. twine of a stronger kind is used for nets.

1. A twist; a convolution; as Typhon's snaky twine

2. Embrace; act of winding round.

TWI'NED, participle passive Twisted; wound round.

TWINGE, verb transitive twinj.

1. To affect with a sharp sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.

The gnat twinged the lion till he made him tear himself, and so he mastered him.

2. To pinch; to tweak; to pull with a jerk; as, to twinge one by the ears and nose.

TWINGE, verb transitive twinj. to have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen spasmodic or shooting pain; as, the side twinges. [This is the sense in which this word is generally used within the limits of my acquaintance.

TWINGE, noun twinj. A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as a twinge in the arm or side.

1. A sharp rebuke of conscience.

2. A pinch; a tweak; as a twinge of the ear.

TWING'ING, participle present tense Suffering a sharp local pain of short continuance; pinching with a sudden pull.

TWING'ING, noun The act of pinching with a sudden twitch; a sudden, sharp, local pain.

TWI'NING, participle present tense Twisting; winding round; uniting closely to; embracing.

1. In botany, ascending spirally around a branch, stem or prop.

TWINK. [See Twinkle.]

TWIN'KLE, verb intransitive

1. To sparkle; to flash at intervals; to shine with a tremulous intermitted light, or with a broken quivering light. The fixed stars twinkle; the planets do not.

These stars do not twinkle when viewed through telescopes that have large apertures.

2. To open and shut the eye by turns; as the twinkling owl.

3. To play irregularly; as, her eyes will twinkle

TWIN'KLE

TWIN'KLING, noun A sparkling; a shining with intermitted light; as the twinkling of the stars.

1. A motion of the eye.

2. A moment; an instant; the time of a wink.

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump--the dead shall be raised incorruptible. 1 Corinthians 15:52.

TWIN'KLING, participle present tense Sparkling.

TWIN'LING, noun [from twin.] A twin lamb.

TWIN'NED, adjective [from twin.] Produced at one birth, like twins; united.

TWIN'NER, noun [from twin.] A breeder of twins.

Jacob and Esau
Genesis 25:24-26

Pharez and Zarah
Genesis 38:27-30

TWIN'TER, noun [two and winter.] A beast two winters old. [Local.]