Index of English words, starting with "tw"

(1) - Twill (v. t.) A quill, or spool, for yarn.
(2) - Twill (v. t.) A fabric women with a twill.
(3) - Twill (v. t.) An appearance of diagonal lines or ribs produced in textile fabrics by causing the weft threads to pass over one and under two, or over one and under three or more, warp threads, instead of over one and under the next in regular succession, as in plain weaving.
(4) - Twill (v. i.) To weave, as cloth, so as to produce the appearance of diagonal lines or ribs on the surface.

(1) - Twilled (imp. & p. p.) of Twill

(1) - Twin (v. i.) To depart from a place or thing.
(2) - Twin (v. t.) To separate into two parts; to part; to divide; hence, to remove; also, to strip; to rob.
(3) - Twin (v. t.) To cause to be twins, or like twins in any way.
(4) - Twin (v. i.) To be born at the same birth.
(5) - Twin (v. i.) To bring forth twins.
(6) - Twin (n.) A compound crystal composed of two or more crystals, or parts of crystals, in reversed position with reference to each other.
(7) - Twin (n.) A person or thing that closely resembles another.
(8) - Twin (n.) A sign and constellation of the zodiac; Gemini. See Gemini.
(9) - Twin (n.) One of two produced at a birth, especially by an animal that ordinarily brings forth but one at a birth; -- used chiefly in the plural, and applied to the young of beasts as well as to human young.
(10) - Twin (a.) Composed of parts united according to some definite law of twinning. See Twin, n., 4.
(11) - Twin (a.) Double; consisting of two similar and corresponding parts.
(12) - Twin (a.) Being one of a pair much resembling one another; standing the relation of a twin to something else; -- often followed by to or with.
(13) - Twin (a.) Being one of two born at a birth; as, a twin brother or sister.