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Definition of Twire
1. n. A twisted filament; a thread.
2. v. i. To peep; to glance obliquely; to leer.
3. v. i. To sing, or twitter.
Definition of Twire
1. Verb. (intransitive) To glance shyly or slyly; look askance; make eyes; leer; peer; pry. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To twinkle; sparkle; wink. ¹
3. Noun. A sly glance; a leer. ¹
4. Noun. A twisted filament; a thread. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) To twist; twirl. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Twire
1. to peer [v TWIRED, TWIRING, TWIRES] - See also: peer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twire
Literary usage of Twire
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"In older authors, to (wire sometimes means to sing ; and to this twire-pipe seems
to allude, in Beaumont and Fletcher's Mons. Thomas, iii, 1. ..."
2. Reports and Notes of Cases on Letters Patent for Inventions [1601-1843] by Thomas Webster, Great Britain Courts (1844)
"I have known them some years; but not the same sort of water twire has been ...
The sides of the furnace began to burn, then we applied the water twire. ..."
3. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"twire, to peep, to peep at intervals, to take a stolen glance at a thing ...
For twire, see above ; pipe may be identified with the Yorks. word pipe, ..."
4. Decisions on the Law of Patents for Inventions Rendered by [English Courts by United States Supreme Court, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Woodbury Lowery (1887)
"have known them some years ; but not the same sort of water twire has been used
... The sides of the furnace began to burn, then we applied the water twire. ..."
5. Remarks on Mr. J. P. Collier's and Mr. C. Knight's Editions of Shakespeare by Alexander Dyce (1844)
"To ' twire' occurs in Chaucer, in the sense of susurro, as Tyrwhitt remarks, and
that may be the meaning here, though Steevens supposes that ..."
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