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   Twig , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Twigged ; 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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   To understand the meaning of; to comprehend; as, do you twig me? [Colloq.]
   Marryat.
   
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   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. zwīg, zwī, 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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   Twig, v. t. To beat with twigs.
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