TWIG
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Twig (twĭg), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Twigged (twĭgd); p. pr. & vb. n. Twigging.] [Cf. Tweak.] To twitch; to pull; to tweak. [Obs. or Scot.]
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Twig, v. t. [Gael. tuig, or Ir. tuigim I understand.]
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1. To understand the meaning of; to comprehend; as, do you twig me? [Colloq.] Marryat.
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2. To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover. “Now twig him; now mind him.” Foote.
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As if he were looking right into your eyes and twigged something there which you had half a mind to conceal.
Hawthorne.
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Twig, n. [AS. twig; akin to D. twijg, OHG. zw&ī;g, zw&ī;, G. zweig, and probably to E. two.] A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no definite length or size.
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The Britons had boats made of willow twigs, covered on the outside with hides.
Sir W. Raleigh.
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Twig borer (Zo&ö;l.), any one of several species of small beetles which bore into twigs of shrubs and trees, as the apple-tree twig borer (Amphicerus bicaudatus). -- Twig girdler. (Zo&ö;l.) See Girdler, 3. -- Twig rush (Bot.), any rushlike plant of the genus Cladium having hard, and sometimes prickly-edged, leaves or stalks. See Saw grass, under Saw.
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Twig, v. t. To beat with twigs.
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