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Twining vbl. sb. World English Historical Dictionary

Twining vbl. sb. 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. Twining vbl. sb. [f. TWINE v.1 + -ING1.] The action of the verb TWINE; twisting, spinning, winding, embracing, writhing.

1 1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. cxlii[i]. (Bodl. MS), lf. 227 b/1. Smal [weþies] … beþ made stronge wiþ … windinge as þrede is wt twynynge.

2 c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 505/1. Twynynge (or wyn(d)ynge, of threde…), tortura.

3 1553.  T. Wilson, Rhet. (1580), 101. A priuie twinyng, or close crepyng in, to win fauour…, called insinuation.

4 a. 1639.  Webster, Appius & Virginia, IV. ii. The rude twinings of a lecherous judge.

5 a. 1703.  Pomfret, Poet. Wks. (1833), 21. Love to one centre every twining brought.

6 1841.  Emerson, Lect., Man the Reformer., Wks. (Bohn), II. 238. Inextricable seem to be the twinings and tendrils of this evil.

7 1872.  G. B. Cheever, Lect. Pilgr. Progr., ii. 44. The twinings and wrestlings, the strivings and agonies of Bunyan’s spirit.

8 1875.  Bennett & Dyer, Sachs’ Bot., 772. The Twining of Climbing Plants…. Twining is a consequence of unequal growth, of a revolving nutation.

9   attrib.  1648.  Hexham, II. Een Twern ofte twijn-molen, a Twinning-mill.

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