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▪ I. † twire, n.1 Obs. slang.
Also 7 tweer.
[f. twire v.1]
A glance, a leer.
1676G. Etherege Man of Mode iii. iii, The affected smiles, the silly by-words, and Amorous Tweers, in passing. 1679A. Behn Feigned Courtezans i. ii, Such an Eye, so sparkling, with an amorous Twire. 1682― False Count i. ii, Winks, and nods, and signes, and twires. 1719D'Urfey Pills V. 74 You toss a twire, a grin.
▪ II. † twire, n.2 Obs. rare—1.
(See quot.; but perhaps only a misprint for twirl.)
1679Locke Obs. Silk (1766) 71 They put the cocons in hot water, and so stirring them about with a kind of rod, the ends of the silk twires of the cocons stick to it.
▪ III. twire, v.1 arch. and dial.|twaɪə(r)|
Forms: 7 twyre, 7– tweer, twire.
[Of obscure origin, but corresponding in form to MHG. zwieren (now Bavarian dial.) to blink, to peer. There is prob. no connexion with the cant word tower, towre, toure, given by Harman (1567) in his Caveat (1869) 84–6, and copied by Dekker and later writers.]
1. intr. To look narrowly or covertly; to peer; to peep. Also fig. of a light, etc.
c1600Shakes. Sonn. xxviii, When sparkling stars twire not thou guil[d]'st th' eauen. 1602Marston Ant. & Mel. iv. Wks. 1856 I. 52, I saw a thing stir under a hedge, and I peep't, and I spyed a thing: and I peer'd, and I tweerd underneath. a1625Fletcher Women Pleased iv. i, I saw the wench that twir'd and twinkled at thee The other day. 1637B. Jonson Sad Sheph. ii. ii, The common Parent of us all! Which Maids will twire at, 'tween their fingers. 1723Steele Consc. Lovers i. i, If I was rich, I could twire and loll as well as the best of them. 1874Swinburne Midsummer Holiday, etc. (1889) 19 Star by star on the unsunned waters twiring down. 1893Wiltshire Gloss. s.v., ‘How he did twire an' twire at she, an' her wouldn't so much as gie 'un a look!’
†2. intr. Used in sense ‘to wink’. Obs. rare—1.
1601Holland Pliny xi. xxxvii. I. 334 So hard a matter is it for a man to keepe his eies from twiring. And many men naturally cannot chuse but be evermore winking and twinckling with their eies.
Hence ˈtwiring vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1604Middleton Father Hubburd's T. Wks. (Bullen) VIII. 99 The tweering constable of Finsbury with his bench of brown bill-men. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. xiii. 169 The Sunne..with a fervent eye lookes through the twyring glades. 1638Lisle Heliodorus x. 172 The Wiseman lookt on King with twiring eyes. 1728Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. (1861) I. 175 We had ogling and tweering [printed tweezing], and whispering and glancing. 1738The Briton Described 13 And then for her Eyes, they are excellent at twiring. a1832Motherwell Facts fr. Fairyland ii, By the winking light of the tweering star.
▪ IV. † twire, v.2 Obs. rare—1.
(Perh. a misprint for twirl v.1 3.)
1628Burton Anat. Mel. iii. ii. iii. i. (ed. 3) 490 No sooner doth a young man see his sweetheart coming, but he..slickes his haire, twires his beard, &c.
▪ V. twire
obs. form of tuyere. |