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Twig \Twig\, v. t.
To beat with twigs.
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Twig \Twig\ (tw[i^]g), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Twigged} (tw[i^]gd);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Twigging}.] [Cf. {Tweak}.]
To twitch; to pull; to tweak. [Obs. or Scot.]
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Twig \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 \Twig\, n. [AS. twig; akin to D. twijg, OHG. zw[imac]g,
zw[imac], 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} (Zool.), 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}. (Zool.) 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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