Twins
[twɪnz]
Definition
(noun.) (mineralogy) two interwoven crystals that are mirror images on each other.
Inputed by Giles--From WordNet
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. pl. (Astron.) [With The prefixed.] Gemini.
Editor: Oswald
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing twins, foretells security in business, and faithful and loving contentment in the home. If they are sickly, it signifies that you will have disappointment and grief.
Checker: Seymour
Unserious Contents or Definition
Insult added to Injury.
Typist: Nadine
Examples
- He is the father of my twins! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Twins, by Jupiter! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The twins testified their joy by several inconvenient but innocent demonstrations. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old at the time of my mother's re-marriage. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Last night, on being childishly solicited for twopence, to buy 'lemon-stunners'--a local sweetmeat--he presented an oyster-knife at the twins! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But the twins are a great tie; and to me, with my recollections, of papa and mama, these transactions are very painful. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- We once knew two famous coachmen (they are dead now, poor fellows) who were twins, and between whom an unaffected and devoted attachment existed. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- If there ever were a pair of twins in danger of being utterly spoiled by adoration, it was these prattling Brookes. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- These arts were indeed twins, feeding at inexhaustible breasts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Though utterly unlike in character, the twins got on remarkably well together, and seldom quarreled more than thrice a day. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- We were twelve boarders, and there were two Miss Donnys, twins. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Kate is older than you, Fred and Frank (twins) about my age, and a little girl (Grace), who is nine or ten. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- There are perhaps some little calves, some little new-yeaned lambs--it may be twins, whose mothers have rejected them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Edited by Lizzie