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'twixt, † twixt, prep.|twɪkst| Forms: 4 twix, tuyx, 4, 6–7 Sc. tuix, 6–7 twixt, 7– 'twixt. Aphetic form of atwixt, betwixt.
13..Cursor M. 3179 (Cott.) [Abraham] loked bi him tuyx þe thorns. Ibid. 22028 O fader and moder he sal be born..Bituix a man and a womman..Noght tuix a biscop and a nun. 1570Satir. Poems Reform. xx. 51 This I will say tuix sport and play. 1578Lyte Dodoens ii. xlviii. 206 The seede [of hyacinth] is drie in the thirde degree, yet temperate twixt heate and colde. 1611Sir W. Mure Misc. Poems i. (title) Ane Conflict tuix Love and Ressoun. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. v. ii. 79 But, Oh the Noble Combat, that 'twixt Ioy and Sorrow, was fought in Paulina. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 146 All the difference..twixt him and others. 1742Young Nt. Th. ix. 673 In thy nocturnal rove, one moment halt, 'Twixt stage and stage. 1885–94R. Bridges Eros & Psyche May xxxi, He fondly kisst her.., And peace was 'twixt them. †b. twixt and, until (see betwixt A. 3), before. Sc. and north. dial. Obs.
13..Cursor M. 927 (Gött.) Þu sal bi þi bred ful dere, Tuix and þu again be gan. 1689in Acts Parlt. Scotl. (1875) XII. 59/1 To compeir before the meetting twixt and þe 9th day of Apryle. c. Comb.: 'twixt-brain = 'tween-brain: see 'tween b.
1878Bell & Lankester tr. Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. 503 These primitive cerebral vesicles give rise to new segments... The first is known as the Fore-brain or Prosencephalon; the next as the Twixt-brain or Thalamencephalon. Also † ˈtwixten (twyxten) prep. Obs. (Cf. betwixen.)
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 2282 [Lear] þoughte his doughtres gyue hosebandes, & twyxten hem parten his landes. |