ppl. a. [f. TWIN sb. or v.2 + -ED1.]
1. Born two at one birth; twin.
1607. Shaks., Timon, IV. iii. 3. Twin’d Brothers of one wombe. Ibid. (1611), Wint. T., I. ii. 67. We were as twyn’d lambs, that did frisk i’ th’ sun.
1621. G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., VIII. (1626), 157. The twind Tyndarides.
[1905. R. Garnett, Shaks., 33.
| With you, dear boys, I’ve lived my boyhood over, | |
| And frisked with you like a twinnéd lamb.] |
2. Intimately joined or united, as two things; coupled (usually also implying close similarity).
1611. Shaks., Cymb., I. vi. 35. The twinn’d Stones Vpon the number’d Beach.
1641. Sir E. Dering, 4 Sp. conc. Laud, etc., i. 2. Two twinned Nations, united together under one regall head.
1872. Sir A. De Vere, Leg. St. Patrick (Cassell), 26. The sun had set; But still those summits twinned,… Laughed with his latest beam.
b. Cryst. United, as two crystals, or consisting of two crystals united, so as to form a ‘twin’: see TWIN sb. 3 b.
1879. Rutley, Study Rocks, x. 98. A group of three twinned crystals of triclinic felspar.
1895. Story-Maskelyne, Crystallogr., vii. § 192. Cubic System. Twinned Forms.
1912. Brit. Museum Return, 194. Tilasite, a large twinned crystal.
