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twainadj.n. Etymology: The modern representative of Old English twégen, the nominative and accusative masculine of the numeral of which the feminine and neuter twá , tú , remain as two adj., n., and adv. It corresponds to Old Frisian twêne , twên (modern Frisian dialect tween , twein , twain ), Old Saxon twêna , twêne , Old High German and Middle High German zwêne (archaic German zween ). In Middle English twain ceased to be confined to the masculine, and became merely a secondary form of two , used especially when the numeral followed the noun. Its use in the Bible of 1611 and in the Marriage Service, and its value as a rhyme-word, have contributed to its retention as an archaic and poetic synonym of two . See also the shortened form tway adj.; and, for the inflections, two adj., n., and adv. = two adj., n., and adv. archaic. A. adj. 1. With a modified noun, etc. the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > [adjective] c725 [see α. forms]. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1963) l. 6115 Twene ibroðeren. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1963) l. 4061 Þeos tweien [c1300 Otho twei] cnihtes. c1380 J. Wyclif III. 310 Whanne tweyne horis stryvede whos was þe child. 1382 J. Wyclif III. 512 A þousand and tweyn hundrid ȝeer. a1450 (1906) 162 It might be proued..by tweyn witnessis. c1460 Wisdom 1077 in 71 In twayn myghtys of my soule I the offendyde. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 167 There be tweyne Mauritanyes, that firste is Mauritany Cesariense, whiche hathe at the este of hit Numidia. 1554 Cdl. Pole in July (1913) 528 I have recevyd twayne yowr lettres. 1870 R. Buchanan iv. 89 Thy blue eyes twain stars. 1871 F. W. Newman xiii. 201 The twain full arm'd Aiantes. c1330 R. Mannyng (1810) 106 Godefrey of Louayn,..Bi messengers tuayn sent to kyng Henry, For his douhter Adelayn. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 4032 Þir breþer tuain þam tok to red. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 354 Lat this flood endure yeris twayne. c1440 1099 Þo adde king lud..ȝonge sones tueie [MS. δ tweyne]. c1440 i. 671 On cok for hennys tweyne. a1513 H. Bradshaw (1521) i. ii. sig. a.v Whylom dyuyded, in sondry kyngdomes twayne. c1560 A. Scott (S.T.S.) xxiii. 26 Hir bricht fair ene twane. 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Cock & Fox in 250 The trembling Widow, and her Daughters twain. c1724 J. Swift Answer Delany in (1735) II. 303 Where we find the Members twain. 1782 W. Cowper 123 The bottles twain..Were shatter'd at a blow. 1843 J. M. Neale (1863) 42 He loved the sisters twain. 1846 J. Keble 244 Five loaves hath he, And fishes twain. 1863 H. W. Longfellow Musician's Tale iv. xi, in 84 She had given the ring to her goldsmiths twain, Who smiled, as they handed it back again. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus lxxviii. i Brothers twain has Gallus. 2. c1000 (Corpus Cambr.) xviii. 20 gyf twegen of eow geþwæriað..be ælcum þinge. c1160 [see α. forms]. c11751 [see α. forms]. c1275 Passion of Our Lord 243 in 44 Þer arysen tweyne and bigunne to speke. a1375 (c1350) (1867) l. 2507 Se what sorwe he suffres to saue vs tweine! 1401 (Rolls) II. 27 What betokeneth that ye goe tweine and tweine togither? 1470–85 T. Malory ii. x. 87 Of the tweyne he had leuer kyng Lotte had be slayne than kynge Arthur. 1526 W. Bonde iii. sig. DDi I shall wryte a worde or twayne. 1596 sig. I1 Which of these twaine is greater infamie..? View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) i. ii. 441 All his Lords, the Duke of Millaine And his braue sonne, being twaine . View more context for this quotation 1657 J. Howell 322 They had six..Meeting places,..twain in Bridge Street,..twain in Old Fish Street, and twain in Stock-Fishmonger Row. 1824 W. Scott I. vii. 148 We will pray him..to tarry a day or twain. 1847 Ld. Tennyson vii. 156 These twain..Sit side by side. 1881 Ld. Tennyson ii. i. 37 That the world may know You twain are reconciled. the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > apart or asunder [phrase] 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville (1495) iii. ix. 54 The vertue of apprehendynge..is departed in tweyne. 1415 in F. J. Furnivall (1882) 23 Y wolle hit be parted on tweyne. c1430 (1867) 58 Or þei be fulli partide on tweyne. c1440 2632 With that stroke he brake his sheld on twayn. 1509 S. Hawes (1845) xxxviii. 197 I have thought long Sithen the time that we parted in twayne. 1598 sig. C3 To cut in twaine the twisted thread. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil 128 Cold Winter split the Rocks in twain . View more context for this quotation 1798 S. Lee Young Lady's Tale in H. Lee II. 145 The marble fountain..was cloven in twain. a1862 H. T. Buckle (1872) I. 84 The nation was..severed in twain by..religious faction. society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > sounding-line or -rod > two fathom mark on 1799 J. W. Russell in R. D. Paine (1907) iii. 43 The man in the chains suddenly sung out ‘quarter less twain’, and we instantly struck. 1863 ‘M. Twain’ in A. B. Paine (1912) I. xl. 221 I want to sign my articles..‘Mark Twain’. It is an old river term, a leads-man's call, signifying two fathoms—twelve feet. 1947 E. M. Mack xv. 228 How many times when he was on the River had he heard the leadsman..call out, ‘By the mark, twain!’ 3. With special connotations. (Cf. one adj. III.) society > society and the community > dissent > [adjective] > disunited the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective] > separate or separated 1600 M. Drayton Idea in (rev. ed.) sig. P2 v Reason and I, (you must conceiue) are twaine. 1609 W. Shakespeare xxxvi. sig. C4 We two must be twaine, Although our vndeuided loues are one. View more context for this quotation 1611 W. Mure iv. 28 Ȝit in a breist sall both our herts no more at all be tuaine. 1671 J. Milton 929 Thou and I long since are twain . View more context for this quotation 1844 T. N. Talfourd iv. i Henceforth we are twain. the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > duality > [adjective] 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville (1495) v. i. f viij/2 A chylde borne, yt was tweyne in ye ouer partye & one in the nether partye. 1870 W. Morris 132 Hope and shame, Twain help,..unto her spirit came. B. n.the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > [noun] a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxiii. 1361 Oon and tweyne, þre, foure and sixe makeþ sixtene, þat passeþ [twelue] by foure. ?c1425 Crafte Nombrynge in R. Steele (1922) 11 Þou mayst not draw sex out of 2. But þou mast draw 2 out of sex. And þou maiste draw twene out of twene. 1480 (Caxton) (1964) 48 Ung deux trois. One tweyne thre. the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > pair > [noun] 1607 E. Topsell 717 Hornes which some men gesse to be of the Vnicorns..because they are found seuerall, neuer by twaines. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iv. i. 104 To blesse this twaine, that they may prosperous be. View more context for this quotation 1816 Ld. Byron 24 Dec. (1976) V. 146 You received my other twain of letters. 1843 S. Bamford (1864) 71 The twain of young lovers have tarried behind. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > twins 1580 C. Hollyband Besson, twaines. 1897 J. Hammond ix. 199 I remark in 1699 three entries of ‘twains’ out of 76 births. 1897 J. Hammond xix. 344 Instead of ‘twins’, [we say] ‘two twains’. Compounds the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [noun] > a cloud > stratus > cumulo-stratus or strato-cumulus 1823 T. I. M. Forster (ed. 3) i. 20 (heading) Of the Cumulostratus or Twaincloud. 1844 H. Stephens I. 246 Why..the heaped stratus [should be called] the twain-cloud is by no means obvious, unless..[as] being composed of two clouds,..but, on the same principle, the cirro-cumulus, and the cirro-stratus and the cumulo-stratus may be termed twain-clouds. society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > sword > [adjective] > having specific number of edges 1382 Heb. iv. 12 The word of God is..more able for to perse than al tweyne eggid swerd. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † twainv. Etymology: < twain adj. and n. Obsolete. the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > divide in two [verb (transitive)] the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > divide [verb (transitive)] 15.. (Add. MS.) (Shaks. Soc.) I. 20 Nowe will I make the firmamente,..For to be a devidente To twayne [Harl. MS. 2124 twyne] the watters. 15.. (Shaks. Soc.) II. 151 My people of Jewes he wulde twayne. c1400 (?c1380) l. 251 Fro we in twynne wern towen & twayned, I haf ben a Ioylez Iuelere. ?17.. Clerk Saunders xii, in F. J. Child (1885) II. iii. 159 It wear great sin this twa to twain. 1878 B. Taylor iii. vi Who twains What once was one. 1900 S. R. Crockett xxxix You may slay my husband, but he is mine still. You cannot twain our souls. the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate, come, or go apart [verb (intransitive)] 15.. (Add. MS.) (Shaks. Soc.) I. 18 Lightnes and darcknes, I byde you tweyne [Harl. MS. 2124 twyn; rhymes begin, myn, in]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2021). <  adj.n.c725 v.15.. |
