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twig

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Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
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2 in 2 verses (in OT : 2 in 2 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

twigv. t. [Cf. Tweak.].
     To twitch; to pull; to tweak.  [1913 Webster]
twigv. t. [Gael. tuig, or Ir. tuigim I understand.].
  •  To understand the meaning of; to comprehend; as, do you twig me?  Marryat.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.  Foote.  [1913 Webster]
    "As if he were looking right into your eyes and twigged something there which you had half a mind to conceal."  [1913 Webster]
twign. [AS. twig; akin to D. twijg, OHG. zw, zw, G. zweig, and probably to E. two.].
     A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no definite length or size.  [1913 Webster]
    "The Britons had boats made of willow twigs, covered on the outside with hides."  [1913 Webster]
Twig borer (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small beetles which bore into twigs of shrubs and trees, as the apple-tree twig borer (Amphicerus bicaudatus). -- Twig girdler. (Zoöl.) See Girdler, 3. -- Twig rush (Bot.), any rushlike plant of the genus Cladium having hard, and sometimes prickly-edged, leaves or stalks. See Saw grass, under Saw.
twigv. t. 
     To beat with twigs.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

twig, n.
1 a small branch or shoot of a tree or shrub.
2 Anat. a small branch of an artery etc.

Derivative
twigged adj. (also in comb.). twiggy adj.
twig, v.tr. (twigged, twigging) colloq.
1 (also absol.) understand; grasp the meaning or nature of.
2 perceive, observe.

Etymology
18th c.: orig. unkn.

THESAURUS

twig

accept, appendage, arm, bine, bough, branch, branchedness, branchiness, burgeon, catch, catch on, comprehend, craze, cry, deadwood, descry, dig, discern, distinguish, divine, espy, fad, fathom, flagellum, fork, frond, furore, get, grasp, hand, imp, joint, know, leg, limb, link, lobe, lobule, mark, member, mode, note, notice, observe, offshoot, organ, perceive, pinion, rage, ramage, ramification, rumble, runner, sapling, sarment, scion, see, seedling, sense, set, shoot, slip, spear, spray, sprig, sprit, sprout, spur, stem, stick, stolon, style, sucker, switch, tail, take, take in, tendril, thallus, tumble to, understand, vogue, wing

ROGET THESAURUS

twig

Part

N part, portion, dose, item, particular, aught, any, division, ward, subdivision, section, chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse, article, passage, sector, segment, fraction, fragment, cantle, frustum, detachment, parcel, piece, lump, bit cut, cutting, chip, chunk, collop, slice, scale, lamina, small part, morsel, particle, installment, dividend, share, debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus, excerpta, member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig, runner, leaf, leaflet, stump, component part, sarmentum, compartment, department, county, fractional, fragmentary, sectional, aliquot, divided, in compartments, multifid, disconnected, partial, partly, in part, partially, piecemeal, part by part, by by installments, by snatches, by inches, by driblets, bit by bit, inch by inch, foot by foot, drop by drop, in detail, in lots.


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