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noun

Twig n. A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no definite length or size. "The Britons had boats made of willow twigs, covered on the outside with hides."

Twig borer (Zool.), any one of several species of small beetles which bore into twigs of shrubs and trees, as the apple-tree twig borer (Amphicerus bicaudatus).

Twig girdler. (Zool.) See Girdler, 3.

Twig rush (Bot.), any rushlike plant of the genus Cladium having hard, and sometimes prickly-edged, leaves or stalks. See Saw grass, under Saw.

verb

Twig v. t. (past & past part. twigged; pres. part. twigging) To twitch; to pull; to tweak. (Obs. or Scot.)

Twig v. t.

To understand the meaning of; to comprehend; as, do you twig me? (Colloq.)

To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover. "Now twig him; now mind him." "As if he were looking right into your eyes and twigged something there which you had half a mind to conceal."

Twig v. t. To beat with twigs.

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"Twig" Quotes from Famous Books

... cheery day for November," Pamela remarked as they took the road by Tweedside. "Look at that beech tree against the blue sky, every black twig silhouetted. Trees ...

— Penny Plain • Anna Buchan (writing as O. Douglas)

... descended and hunched itself anew along the finger. It travelled up the motionless hand and reached the sleeve. With a smile on his lips Achilles entered the shop. He took down an empty fig-box and transferred the treasure to its depths, dropping in after it one or two leaves and a bit of twig. He fitted the lid to the box, leaving a little air, and taking the pen from his desk, wrote across the side in clear Greek letters. Then he placed the box on the shelf behind him, where the wet ink of ...

— Mr. Achilles • Jennette Lee

... into my horse's ear and fling behind what you will find there," said the Pooka, his teeth chattering. Flann put his hand into the horse's right ear and found a twig of ash. He flung it behind them. Instantly a tangled wood sprang up. They heard the Bull driving through the tangle of the wood and they heard Crom Duv shouting as he smashed his way through the brakes and branches. But the Bull and the man got through the wood and again ...

— The King of Ireland's Son • Padraic Colum

... has been up just long enough to take the before-dawn chill from the air without having swallowed all the diamonds that spangle bush and twig and grass-blade after a night's soaking rain, it is good to ride over the hills of Idaho and feel oneself a king,—and never mind the crown and the sceptre. Lone Morgan, riding early to the Sawtooth to see the foreman about getting a man for a few days to help replace a bridge carried fifty yards ...

— Sawtooth Ranch • B. M. Bower

... the clear, joyous note of a bird, just above Balder's head. It was such a note as might have been uttered by a paradisical cuckoo with the breath of a brighter world in his throat. Looking up, he saw a beautiful little fowl perched on the topmost twig of the birch-tree. It had a slender bill, and on its head a crest of splendid feathers, which it set up at Balder in a most coquettish manner. The next moment it flew over the wall, and from the farther side warbled ...

— Idolatry - A Romance • Julian Hawthorne

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