twain

alternative twaine

1. datedtwo

   But the warm twilight round us twain will never rise again.

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   Bring me these twain cups of wine and water, and let us drink from the one we feel more befitting of this day.

   Since I haue your good leaue to goe away, I will make haſt; but till I come againe, No bed ſhall ere be guilty of my ſtay, Nor reſt be interpoſer twixt vs twaine.

   c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 176

   A month or twain to live on honeycomb Is pleasant;

   1866, Algernon Swinburne, Before Parting, lines 1–2

   Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.

   1889, Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West, line 1

   And whenever Sir Chetwynd spoke of his "young girls" he was moved to irreverent smiling, as he knew the youngest of the twain was at least thirty.

   1897, Marie Corelli, “Chapter I”, in Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul, New York: Stone & Kimball, page 25

alternative twaine

1. not comparableraretwofold

plural twains · alternative twaine

1. Pair, couple.

   The susceptible twain, on the search for adventure, dropped in.

   1903 February 8, The Truth, Sydney, page 3, column 3

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   The twain immediately proffered their companionship. ‘I will come with you,’ said Mr Lessingham. ‘And I,’ echoed Sydney.

   1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle

present singular third person twains · participle present twaining · participle past twained · past twained · alternative twaine

1. transitiveTo part in twain; divide; sunder.

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