Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: twinkle – two
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twinkle (-d), v. [OE twinclian.]
- Sparkle; glitter; flash at internals; [fig.] reappear; surface again quickly.
- Wink; blink the eyes for pleasure; get a joyful spark of light in the eyes.
twinkling, verbal adj. [see twinkle, v.]
Shiny; flashy; glittering; sparkling; radiant; giving pulses of light.
twinkling, verbal n. [see twinkle, v.]
Sparkle; glitter; pulsing of light.
twirl (-ed), v. [of obscure origin.]
Spin; twist; whirl; rotate rapidly.
twist (-s), v. [ME twīnen < Gr. 'to twist, thread'.]
Combine; wind; entwine.
twitch (-ed, -ing), v. [ME twicchen.]
- Snag; grab; snatch at; get caught on; become attached to; pull with a jerk.
- Jerk; move involuntarily; make a spasm; experience a series of quick muscle contractions.
twitter, n. [Imitative.]
Chirp; cheep; tweedle; song.
twixt, adv. [OE; poetic contraction of “betwixt”; see between, prep.]
- Passing from one to the other.
- Between; in the area that determines; within the space that separates.
two, adj. [OE twá.] (webplay: one, two, twelve-month).
Dual; binary; bigeminal; one plus one; one and another together; one located in the same place as the other.
two, n. [see two, adj.]
- Twain; one and another separate from each other.
- Duo; deuce; dyad; binary pair; a couple.