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twin(2) (iou)



twin verb. Infl. -nn-. ME.
[from TWIN adjective & noun.]
I. obsolete exc. Scot.
verb trans. Separate, sever, divide; deprive of. Formerly also (rare), part with. ME.
Fraser's Magazine Ah, my cruel cruel step-dame, who hath twinn'd our love for aye.
verb intrans. Split, separate, divide; part (from, with). Formerly also, depart, go away. ME.
S. Rutherford We should never twin again.
II.
a. verb trans. Couple, join, unite; combine (two things or persons) closely or intimately; spec. establish official links between (two towns or cities, esp. in different countries) for the purposes of friendship and cultural exchange (usu. in pass.). LME.
Tennyson Still we moved Together, twinn'd as horse's ear and eye. Harrogate Advertiser Harrogate was the first town in the country to be twinned with a French townLuchon.
b. verb intrans. Be coupled, join, unite; (of two things or persons) be combined closely or intimately; spec. (of a town or city) be or become twinned with (another). E17.
E. Benlowes Wealth twins with fear. Guardian 30 British councils have twinned with towns in the Third World.
c. verb trans. In pass. Crystallography. Of two crystals: be united according to some definite law to form a twin crystal; undergo twinning. M19.
verb intrans. & trans. Give birth to (two children or animals) at one time; bear (twins). L16.
T. Hardy Two more ewes have twinned.
b. verb intrans. Be born at the same birth with; be the twin brother or sister of another. Now rare or obsolete. E17.
Shakespeare Othello Though he had twinn'd with me, both at a birth.
verb trans. Be or provide a counterpart to; match, parallel. Chiefly poet. E17.
J. R. Lowell O'erhead the balanced hen-hawk slides, Twinned in the river's heaven below.
verb trans. Break up or clear (land) with a twin (TWIN noun 4b). dial. M19.