Vocabulary : Twinning to Twisted

Twinning : of Twin ;; The assemblage of two or more crystals, or parts of crystals, in reversed position with reference to each other in accordance with some definite law; also, rarely, in artificial twinning (accomplished for example by pressure), the process by which this reversal is brought about.
Twinter : A domestic animal two winters old.
Twire : A twisted filament; a thread. ;; To peep; to glance obliquely; to leer. ;; To twinkle; to glance; to gleam. ;; To sing, or twitter.
Twire-pipe : A vagabond musician.
Twirl : To move or turn round rapidly; to whirl round; to move and turn rapidly with the fingers. ;; To revolve with velocity; to be whirled round rapidly. ;; The act of twirling; a rapid circular motion; a whirl or whirling; quick rotation. ;; A twist; a convolution.

Twirled : of Twirl
Twirling : of Twirl
Twist : Act of imparting a turning or twisting motion, as to a pitched ball; also, the motion thus imparted; as, the twist of a billiard ball. ;; A strong individual tendency, or bent; a marked inclination; a bias; -- often implying a peculiar or unusual tendency; as, a twist toward fanaticism. ;; To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve. ;; Hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert; as, to twist a passage cited from an author. ;; To distort, as a solid body, by turning one part relatively to another about an axis passing through both; to subject to torsion; as, to twist a shaft. ;; To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts. ;; To wind into; to insinuate; -- used reflexively; as, avarice twists itself into all human concerns. ;; To unite by winding one thread, strand, or other flexible substance, round another; to form by convolution, or winding separate things round each other; as, to twist yarn or thread. ;; Hence, to form as if by winding one par
Twiste : imp. of Twist.
Twisted : of Twist ;; Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted.

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