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▪ I. twining, vbl. n.|ˈtwaɪnɪŋ|
[f. twine v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of the verb twine; twisting, spinning, winding, embracing, writhing.
1398Trevisa 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. c1440Promp. Parv. 505/1 Twynynge (or wyn(d)ynge, of threde..), tortura. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. (1580) 101 A priuie twinyng, or close crepyng in, to win fauour.., called insinuation. a1639Webster Appius & Virginia iv. ii, The rude twinings of a lecherous judge. a1703Pomfret Poet. Wks. (1833) 21 Love to one centre every twining brought. 1841Emerson Lect., Man the Reformer Wks. (Bohn) II. 238 Inextricable seem to be the twinings and tendrils of this evil. 1872G. B. Cheever Lect. Pilgr. Progr. ii. 44 The twinings and wrestlings, the strivings and agonies of Bunyan's spirit. 1875Bennett & Dyer Sachs's Bot. 772 The Twining of Climbing Plants... Twining is a consequence of unequal growth, of a revolving nutation.
attrib.1648Hexham ii, Een Twern ofte twijn-molen, a Twinning-mill.
▪ II. twining, ppl. a.|ˈtwaɪnɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That twines, in various senses; twisting, winding, coiling, writhing, etc.; spec. of a plant: growing spirally round a support.
a1593Marlowe in Eng. Parnassus (1600) 480 The Eglantine and Rose..As kind companions in one union grows, Folding their twining armes. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 8 The twining tendrils of the Vine. 1669Penn No Cross vii. §4 A Crooked, Twining, Twisting Serpent. 1735Somerville Chase iv. 153 Spare not thou The twining whip, but ply his bleeding Sides. 1824L. M. Hawkins Annaline II. 213 The thick forest [was] decorated with twining plants. 1861Bentley Man. Bot. (1870) 100 If such stems twist round other bodies in a spiral manner they are said to be twining.
Hence ˈtwiningly adv., in a twining manner.
1731Bailey, Twiningly, twistingly. |