a. arch. [f. TWIG sb.1 + -EN.] a. Made of twigs or wickerwork; also, having a wickerwork covering. b. Arising from burning twigs or brushwood.

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1549.  Coverdale, etc., Erasm. Par. Acts vii. 29. A twiggen basket or hamper.

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1588.  Lanc. Wills (Chetham Soc.), III. 136. A twiggen cheare xijd.

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1604.  Shaks., Oth., II. iii. 152. Ile beate the Knaue into a Twiggen-Bottle [Qq. wicker bottle].

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1681.  Grew, Musæum, IV. iii. 372. The Sides and Rim sewed together after the manner of Twiggen-Work.

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1747.  Carte, Hist. Eng., I. 44. Those twiggen machines … filled in every part or member with the miserable wretches destined to be burnt by way of sacrifice.

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1825.  Hor. Smith, Tor Hill (1838), I. 94. What, neighbour Stiles, pawn thy wedding ring to fill the twiggen-bottle!

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1875.  Morris, Æneid, VII. 463. When with a mighty roar the twiggen flame [L. flamma virgea] goes up about the hollow side of brass.

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