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'tween, † tween, prep.|twiːn|
Forms: 4 tuene, 5 twene, twen, twyn, 6 tweene, 7 'tweene, 8– 'tween.
Aphetic form of atween, between.
13..Cursor M. 9363 (Gött.) Tuene þaim fayre acord es nane. 13..Guy Warw. (A.) 4482 Þemperour cleped Herhaud him to, & aresound him tvene hem tvo. c1420? Lydg. Assembly of Gods 16 Twene slepyng and wakyng he bad me aryse. 1430–40― Bochas i. xiv. (MS. Bodl. 263) 62/1 Thus atwen yre and twen affeccion She heeld hir longe. 1443Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 214 God send us pees twen Ynglond and Ffraunce! 1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 20 Of alle thyngys lord thou art juge Twyn hym and me. 1581A. Hall Iliad x. 178 Hie noise tweene them is trold. 1605Shakes. Lear i. ii. 12 A whole tribe of Fops Got 'tweene a sleepe, and wake. 1783Burns Rigs o' Barley i, The time flew by, wi' tentless heed, Till 'tween the late and early. 1806Scott Wandering Willie vii, But oh, how we doubt when there's distance 'tween lovers.
b. In Combinations (cf. between adv. 4): 'tween-brain: see quot.; 'tween doffer, a doffer intermediate between two others; 'tween-watch, ? = dog-watch. Also 'tween-decks.
1821Clare Vill. Minstr. etc. (1823) I. 205 As 'tween-light hangs the eve. 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 391 A small intervening cylinder, called the 'tween doffer, which carries it to the third main cylinder. 1890Billings Nat. Med. Dict., 'Tween-brain, portion of brain between the hemispheres and the corpora quadrigemina:..proposed as an equivalent for the German Zwischen-hirn, the second of the five vesicles of the embryonic brain. 1899W. Churchill R. Carvel xx, Many and many the 'tween-watch have I passed in a coil of rope in the tops. |