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单词 tway
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twayadj.

/tweɪ/
Forms:

α. Old English tué, Old English tuég, Old English tuége, Old English tuóge, Old English twé, Old English twóege, Old English–Middle English twége, Old English–Middle English twǽge, Middle English tuei, Middle English tueie, Middle English tueye, Middle English tuuei, Middle English twei, Middle English tweie, Middle English tweiȝe, Middle English tweye, Middle English tweyȝe, Middle English twie, Middle English twy, Middle English–1600s twey. a950 in J. Stevenson Rituale Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis (1840) 113 Ðerh hvnd seofontig tvoegi boec aldes & nives gicyðnisses.c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Mark vi. 41 Fif hlafo & tue fiscas.c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Luke ii. 24 Tuoe turturas vel tuoge birdas culfras [Rushw. twoege t. vel twoege birdas culfra].c975 Rushw. Gosp. John ii. 6 Nimende syndrige sestras twoege vel ðria.c1160 Hatton Gosp. Matt. xxvi. 37 He genam petrum & zebedeus twege sunes [Ags. G. twegen suna].c1175 12th c. Hom. (Bodl.) 98 Twæȝe men herbiforen þis festen festen.c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 207 Þe gostliche rode..haueð twei names, cordis contritio et proximi compassio.c1275 Passion of Our Lord 438 in Old Eng. Misc. 49 Hi nome twey þeoues.c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 10/317 Þe tweie croiz..þat þe þeoues on i-hanguede were.1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 731 And ȝef is tueie doȝtren half, & half him sulf nom.1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 6322 Bi tuene þis tueye kinges.c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1963) l. 5322 Hii..sende twie [c1275 Calig. tweien] eorles.a1325 Statutes of Realm in MS Rawl. B.520 f. 65v Tuuei writes of wuche comez tuueine assoines.c1325 Spec. Gy Warw. 785 Tweye manere shame..Þat on goþ to dampnacioun; Þat oþer, to sauuacioun. ▸ a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 5 Bytwene þe tweie [MS. γ twy] riveres.c1400 R. Gloucester's Chron. 754 (MS. α) Þeos tweiȝe kinges. ▸ c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 8 A sillogisme is mad of twey proposiciouns dryuyng out of hem..the thridde proposicioun.

β. Middle English tuai, Middle English tuay, Middle English–1600s (1700s– archaic) tway, 1500s twaye. c1330 Arth. & Merl. (Kölbing) 4788 He hadde strengþe of kniȝtes tvay.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12699 Of hir war born god childer tuai [rhyme sai; Fairf. tway, Trin. Cambr. twey].a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 21756 Þe bodi of elemens tuis tuai [Fairf. tway, Gött. tuay; rhyme I say].1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Hastings li Vniudgd hangth yet the case betwixt them twaye [rhyme saye].1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. May 18 We tway bene men of elder witt.1611 in T. Coryate Crudities sig. d8v Tom is,..the Greeker of the tway [rhyme say].1742 W. Shenstone School-mistress vi For Scepter, she wou'd wield Tway Birchen Sprays. 1865 [see sense 1b].

γ. Scottish Middle English–1600s tway, 1500s–1600s tuay. c1480 (a1400) St. Lawrence 512 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 416 Þai tuk þe cors..þai tway It bare.1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) x. l. 107 Mycht we get ane or tway [rhyme way].1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. vi. 17 Amyd the wod his modir met thame tway [rhyme array].1537 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis (1845) I. 413 Tway pennies for ilk barne absent.1549 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis (1845) I. 438 For þe tuay part of þe mylne.1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xvii. 105 That schot, allace! yis realme hes shot in tway [rhyme away].1597 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 446 Ane fouli in hand, or tway [rhyme day].a1600 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems (1887) i. 12 A turne in tyme is ay worth other tuay [rhyme auay.]1615 W. Mure Misc. Poems viii. 44 Reflecting only on ws tuay [rhyme away].

Etymology: Shortened form of Old English twégen, Middle English tweyen, twain adj. and n., the final n being normally dropped. Old English twége seems not to be recorded in West Saxon, but it occurs in Anglian in Rushworth Gospel Gloss., and in the late Hatton Gospel before a consonant, and is the ordinary form in Old Northumbrian (varying in Lindisfarne Gloss. as twoege , tuoge , tueg , tuoe , twoe , tue ; Rit. Dunelm. has tvoegi , twoego ). These forms are not rigidly confined to the masculine. From the Old English twége (or by similar shortening of Middle English tweyen , tweien ) came Middle English tweye , twei(e , twey in Midland and Southern English, twai , tway in Northern and North-Midland. But tway in Scotch from c1500 may also be only a variant spelling of the later twae < twā , two adj., n., and adv.: the Scots forms have therefore been separated as γ. Even as an archaism the form is now rarely employed.
Numeral adjective. = two adj., n., and adv. Now archaic.
1. With a modified noun.
a. Preceding the noun.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > [adjective]
twainc725
twoa900
twaya950
dual1607
a couple more1961
a950Tvoegi boec [see α. forms]. c9502Twoege birdas [see α. forms]. c1160Twege sunes [see α. forms]. c1200Twei names [see α. forms].
c1275 Passion of Our Lord 645 in Old Eng. Misc. 55 Þer stoden twei veyre men.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 312 Tweie dawes hii wende in þe see.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 1806 Tueie [v.r. twei] emperours of rome, Dioclician &..maximian.
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 11264 To pray..saueþ man on twey partys.
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. v. 109 He was bitel-brouwed, with twei blered eiȝen.
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 188 Oure Lord..spekiþ..of tweie matrimoneys.
c1394 P. Pl. Crede 439 A litell childe..And tweyne of tweie ȝeres olde.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 19419 Tweye witenes had þei hem purueide.
c1450 Godstow Reg. 191 An hundred shillyngis..at twey termes in the yere.
1570 Mariage Witte & Sci. iv. iv. sig. Divv Ignoraunce. Choulde geue twaye pence to see it and tway pence moore.
1573 J. Tyrie Refut. Ansuer Knox f. 5v The kirk is vniuersall, and..it hes continewall successioun of pastoures: quhilk tuay markis did neuer..aggrie to onie..congregatioun of heretikes.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) ii. sig. V3v Tis now full tway score Of yeeres..since I good Mastix knewe.
1712 M. Prior Erle Robert's Mice 1 Tway Mice..Batten beside Erle Robert's Table.
b. Following the noun poetic.
ΚΠ
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13094 Þa cleopede he eorles tweie [c1300 Otho tweye].
c1275 Moral Ode 225 in Old Eng. Misc. 66 Hunger and þurst, vuele tweye [earlier MSS. twa, two] ivere.
c1320 tr. J. Bonaventura Medit. 50 Þe soper was dyȝt..By dyscyplys seuenty and twey.
a1400 K. Alis. (Laud) 7254 He knew þoo barouns tweye [rhyme cuntreye].
c1400 Rom. Rose 1744 Thanne toke I with myn hondis tweie The arowe.
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. viii. 161 Vppon feet but tway.
1543 R. Grafton Contin. in Chron. J. Hardyng Ded. sig. **iiiv The Scottish kyng, sending furth heraldes twaie.
1563 T. Sackville in W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Buckingham sig. S.iv v Downthrow we strayt his sellie nephewes twaye.
1865 S. Evans Brother Fabian's MSS 58 Now..shut mine eyen tway.
†c. tway part phr. Scottish Obsolete two-thirds (= twapart at two adj. 1c.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > division into three > [noun] > a third > two thirds
bisse1398
tway part1531
1531 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1905) VI. 18 For tway elnis and ane tway-part elne gray weluet.
1549 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis (1845) I. 438 With brew hous and tuay part of þe myln of þe said toune.
2.
a. Absolutely with ellipsis of the noun, or following a pronoun or pronominal adjective.
ΚΠ
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 4071 Sibile þe sage sede..Þat þer ssolde of brutayne þre men be ybore Þat ssolde winne þe aumperye of rome; of þe tueye ydo it is,..& þou art þe þridde.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2147 To take hem tweie.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 635 Naked war þai bath tway [Trin. Cambr. þei boþe tweyn].
a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1906) 153 Y shalle saie of euery astate an ensaumple or twey.
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iv. i. sig. F.ijv I haue a message or tway.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. sig. N6v Betwixt vs tway, We beare our double yoke.
1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. B3 When Hattubus old..did tie them tway With nuptiall charm.
b. In genitive after possess. pronoun.
ΚΠ
1476 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 599 Ther twoys dysposysyon [sc. the disposition of them two].
c. as n. A pair, couple.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > pair > [noun]
pairc1300
couple1365
paira1382
gemels1382
pair1391
yokea1425
brace1430
binarya1464
match1542
twin1569
binity?1578
twoa1585
couplement1596
Gemini1602
couplet1604
twain1607
duad1660
dyad1675
duet1749
tway?a1800
doublet1816
two-group1901
two-grouping1901
coupling1961
?a1800 Lord Livingston ix, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1892) IV. viii. 432 They were a comely tway.
3. in (into) tway: into two parts or pieces, in two.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > apart or asunder [phrase]
in ( on) twoc890
from sunderOE
to set in sunderc1325
in twinnyc1380
in (on) twain1398
in (into) twaya1400
on twina1400
on part1485
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 20556 For ferde hir hert sulde brast in-twai.
1558 Lydgate's Bochas ix. xxxv. 36 b The lyues threde for to breke in tway [Bodl. MS. tweyne].
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 195 Cut ȝour typpet in to tway.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. vii. sig. G2 Which..Almost rent her tender hart in tway.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
tway-coned adj.
ΚΠ
1872 J. S. Blackie Lays of Highlands 105 Fare-thee-well, thou tway coned Cruachan.
tway-edged adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > sword > [adjective] > having specific number of edges
tway-bitinga1382
twain-edged1382
tway-edged1545
two-heeleda1610
three-edged1685
1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (i.) f. 11v With the twei edged swerde.
tway-footed adj.
ΚΠ
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum v. liv. (Bodl.) lf. 28/1 Þe feete of foules and of twey footed beestes.
tway-handed adj.
ΚΠ
1552 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1913) X. 82 Tway handit sword.
C2. See also twayblade n.
† tway-biting adj. Obsolete ‘biting’ or cutting two ways, two-edged.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > sword > [adjective] > having specific number of edges
tway-bitinga1382
twain-edged1382
tway-edged1545
two-heeleda1610
three-edged1685
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. v. 4 The tunge of hir sharp as a twei bitende swerd.
† tway-fold adv. Obsolete = twifold adj. and adv., twofold adj. and adv.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > duality > [adjective]
twifoldc890
twinc1000
double?c1225
tway-fold1303
doublefold1382
twain1398
twin-kina1400
twinlepia1400
four-eared1514
twofold1559
bifold1590
duplar1610
binal?c1640
dual1655
binarious1656
binary system1766
dualistic1832
double-barrelled1837
twinfold1842
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 1153 Þys olde man..bade hym take A sak.. And ..turne hyt tweyfolde.
c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale (Ellesm.) 13 A male tweyfoold [v.r. twyfold] vp on his croper lay.
† tway-like adj. Obsolete see quot.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [adjective] > two-dimensional > triangular > isosceles
isosceles1551
tway-like1551
equicrure1644
equicrural1650
isoscelar1711
isoscel1715
1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i. Defin. B iij An other distinction of the names of triangles, according to their sides, whiche other be all equal..other els two sydes bee equall and the thyrd vnequall, which the Greekes call Isosceles,..and in english tweyleke may they be called.
1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i. Def. Further more it may be yt they haue neuer a one syde equall to another, and they be in iij kyndes also distinct lyke the twilekes.
† tway-toothed adj. Obsolete having two rows of teeth.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > types or spec. teeth > [adjective] > having two rows
tway-tootheda1387
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 405 Wormes þat were tweie [v.r. twy] toþed [L. bidentati] and i-liche to wontes..ete þe brede corne.
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