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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



... Of Wraththe the secounde is Cheste, Which hath the wyndes of tempeste To kepe, and many a sodein blast He bloweth, wherof ben agast 420 Thei that desiren pes and reste. He is that ilke ungoodlieste Which many a lusti love hath twinned; For he berth evere his mowth unpinned, So that his lippes ben unloke And his corage is al tobroke, That every thing which he can telle, It springeth up as doth a welle, Which mai non of his stremes ...
— Confessio Amantis - Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins, 1330-1408 A.D. • John Gower


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