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. 65^v 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. d8^v 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. Div^v Ignoraunce. Choulde geue twaye pence to see it and tway pence moore.

1573 J. Tyrie Refut. Ansuer Knox f. 5^v 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. V3^v 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. **iii^v 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.

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.ij^v I haue a message or tway.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. sig. N6^v 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. 11^v 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 y^t 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.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	tway
释义	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. 65^v 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. d8^v 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. Div^v Ignoraunce. Choulde geue twaye pence to see it and tway pence moore. 1573 J. Tyrie Refut. Ansuer Knox f. 5^v 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. V3^v 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. *iii^v 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.ij^v I haue a message or tway. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. sig. N6^v 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. 11^v 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 y^t 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.a950
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