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adjective
Twinned  adj.  (Crystallog.) Composed of parts united according to a law of twinning. See Twin, n., 4.


verb
Twin  v. t.  
1.
To cause to be twins, or like twins in any way. "Still we moved Together, twinned, as horse's ear and eye."
2.
To separate into two parts; to part; to divide; hence, to remove; also, to strip; to rob. (Obs.) "The life out of her body for to twin."


Twin  v. i.  (past & past part. twinned; pres. part. twinning)  
1.
To bring forth twins.
2.
To be born at the same birth.


Twin  v. i.  To depart from a place or thing. (Obs.) "Ere that we farther twin."





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"Twinned" Quotes from Famous Books



... to tell ye," said the junior shepherd, supporting his exhausted youthful frame against the doorpost, "that you must come directly. Two more ewes have twinned—that's what's the ...
— Far from the Madding Crowd • Thomas Hardy
... certainly, and many ways of strange dashing life. Not but that Giles has worked hard in helping me to bring things to such perfection to-day. 'Giles,' says I, though he's maister. Not that I should call'n maister by rights, for his father growed up side by side with me, as if one mother had twinned us ...
— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy


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