Obs. Also 8 twey-; 7 pl. tweeze. [Aphetic f. etwee ETUI.] = TWEEZE.
1690. Songs Costume (Percy Soc.), 196. [We also see] Tweeze As rich and costly as all these.
1747. Hoadly, Suspicious Husband, II. ii. Sure I have not dropt my Twee.
1749. in 6th Rep. Dep. Kpr., App. II. 123. Small perspective Glasses with Mathematical and other Instruments and Twees, in one and the same case.
1767. Poetry, in Ann. Reg., 236. Seals, rings, ’twees, bodkins.
attrib. 1782. Miss Burney, Cecilia, V. ix. What has he left behind him? a twey-case, I suppose, and a bit of a hat won’t go on a man’s head.
