v. Obs. Forms: 1 twǽman, 3 twemen, tweamin, tweamen. [OE. twǽman, f. an extension of the stem of twá, TWO.] trans. To divide into two parts, separate (lit. and fig.).
[c. 893, a. 1225: see TO-TWEME.]
a. 1023. Wulfstan, Hom., l. (Napier), 272. Þæt we … ne lætan us deofol dwelian ne twæman.
c. 1050. Byrhtferth’s Handboc, in Anglia, VIII. 334. Þys taken [dyple] ʓesetton þa ealdan writeras on ciriclicum bocum, þæt hiʓ twæmdon oððe ætywdon þa ʓewitnyssa haliʓra ʓewrita.
c. 1205. Lay., 2048. Ic wlle … twemen mine bearnen.
a. 1225. St. Marher., 5. Ne mei unc nowðer lif ne deað tweamin atwa.
a. 1240. Sawles Warde, in Cott. Hom., 265. Hwet mei tweamen us from godd ant halden us þeonne.
