Twig"ger (?), n. A fornicator. [Eng.] Halliwell.
Twig"gy (?), a. Of or pertaining to a twig or twigs; like a twig or
twigs; full of twigs; abounding with shoots. " Twiggy trees." Evelyn.
Twight (?), v. t. To twit. [Obs.] Spenser.
Twight, obs. p. p. of Twitch. Chaucer.
Twight"e (?), obs. imp. of Twitch. Chaucer.
Twig"less (?), a. Having no twigs.
Twig"some (?), a. Full of, or abounding in, twigs; twiggy. [R.] "
Twigsome trees." Dickens.
Twi"light` (?), n. [OE. twilight, AS. twi- (see Twice) + leóht light;
hence the sense of doubtful or half light; cf. LG. twelecht, G.
zwielicht. See Light.]
1. The light perceived before the rising, and after the setting, of the
sun, or when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon, occasioned by
the illumination of the earth's atmosphere by the direct rays of the
sun and their reflection on the earth.
2. faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is
viewed.
As when the sun . . . from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous
twilight sheds.
Milton.
The twilight of probability.
Locke.
Twi"light`, a. 1. Seen or done by twilight. Milton.