▪ I. † a-ˈtwin, advb. phr.1 Obs.
Forms: 4 o twynne, o tuyn, o tuynne, a twyne, a twyny, atwinn(e, 4–5 atwynne, atwin, 4–6 atwyn.
[f. a prep.1+ twin, a. ON. tvinn ‘two and two, in pairs, two different things’; also tvinni (indecl.) two. ? Or from twin v. to separate: cf. atwin v.]
1. Away from each other, asunder, apart.
| 1303 R. Brunne Handl. Synne 9177 Þe same oure atwynne þe wonede. 1330 ― Chron. 101 Neuer þei were o twynne, vntille ded þam slouh. 1382 Wyclif Acts xv. 39 Forsoth dissencioun is maad, so that thei departiden a twyny [v.r. a twynne. 1388 a twynny.] c 1449 Pecock Repr. i. vii. 32 Grammer and dyuynyte ben ij. facultees atwin and asundir departid. c 1500 King & Barker 127 in Hazl. E.P.P. (1864) 10 Owr kyng and the barker partyd feyr a twyn. |
2. In two, in twain.
| c 1460 Lybeaus Disc. 1962 And karf..hys hedde atwynne. |
▪ II. a-twin, advb. phr.2 rare—1.
(əˈtwɪn)
[f. twin after akin.]
In the relation of twin with.
| 1879 M. Conway Demonol. I. iii. xi. 418 The monster sent by one..is ethically atwin with the snake created by the other. |