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Twine v.2. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Twine v.2 Sc. [Later form of TWIN v.1, prob. by misunderstanding of ambiguous spellings under the influence of TWINE v.1] intr. and trans. To separate, part, etc.; = TWIN v.1 in various uses.

1   It is doubtful whether an inf. twyne is to be assumed for the ME. examples of the pa. t. twynde cited below; in other cases the form is shown by rhymes or other evidence to be a mere variant of TWIN v.1 The spelling twin’d is ambiguous, and may represent either twined or twinned.

2   [c. 1450.  St. Cuthbert (Surtees), 6305. In partyes he it twynde, Ȝit sulde he … within a while Aboute his nek it fynde.

3 a. 1500.  New Nut-brown Maid, 303, in Hazlitt, E. P. P., III. 13. And I am twynde Out of his mynde, Ryght as a banysshed man.]

4   1621.  [see quot. 1567 s.v. TWIN v.1 2 a].

5 1728.  Ramsay, Robt., Richy, & Sandy, 57. Twin’d of its nourishment it lifeless lay.

6 1795.  Burns, Destr. Woods Drumlanrig, v. What ruefu’ chance Has twin’d ye o’ your stately trees?

7 a. 1800[?].  Bob Norice, vi., in Child, Ballads (1886), II. 267/2. To twyne him o his wife.

8 1886.  Stevenson, Kidnapped, xviii. ‘You and me must twine,’ I said…. ‘I will hardly twine from ye, David, without some kind of reason for the same,’ said Alan.

9 1894.  R. Reid, in Poets of Dumfriesshire, x. (1910), 303. Cauld maun his heart be, twined o’ its joys.

10 1895.  Crockett, Men of Moss-hags, iii. 31. What cause is guid that twines a woman frae her ain man…!

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