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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Old spellings of twitch, twitcher.
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My right shoulder has developed a twich. previous - next
motivate-me1 Diary Entry motivate-me1 2003
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The second method is by the "twich-up" or snare, which consists of a noose tied to a bent sapling and properly baited.
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She had closed her eyes, and now she gave the bandage on her head an angry twich.
A Village Ophelia and Other Stories Anne Reeve Aldrich 1879
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The writing was nearly washed away, but the letters 'lwich,' or 'twich,' were still legible near the corner, and it turned out to be a letter to Dulwich, which Mark Wylder had undertaken to put in the Gylingden post-office, on the last night on which he appeared at Brandon.
Wylder's Hand Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843
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The downside of streaming games from a remote server, however, is that lag can be a problem, especially for fast-twich games like Unreal Tournament III; image quality may also suffer from compression artifacts depending on the speed of your broadband connection.
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The downside of streaming games from a remote server, however, is that lag can be a problem, especially for fast-twich games like Unreal Tournament III; image quality may also suffer from compression artifacts depending on the speed of your broadband connection.
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At noon to the Exchange, and so home to dinner, where I found my wife had been with Ashwell to La Roche's to have her tooth drawn, which it seems aches much, but my wife could not get her to be contented to have it drawn after the first twich, but would let it alone, and so they came home with it undone, which made my wife and me good sport.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 21: March/April 1662-63 Samuel Pepys 1668
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At noon to the Exchange, and so home to dinner, where I found my wife had been with Ashwell to La Roche's to have her tooth drawn, which it seems aches much, but my wife could not get her to be contented to have it drawn after the first twich, but would let it alone, and so they came home with it undone, which made my wife and me good sport.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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At noon to the Exchange, and so home to dinner, where I found my wife had been with Ashwell to La Roche's to have her tooth drawn, which it seems aches much, but my wife could not get her to be contented to have it drawn after the first twich, but would let it alone, and so they came home with it undone, which made my wife and me good sport.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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At noon to the Exchange, and so home to dinner, where I found my wife had been with Ashwell to La Roche's to have her tooth drawn, which it seems aches much, but my wife could not get her to be contented to have it drawn after the first twich, but would let it alone, and so they came home with it undone, which made my wife and me good sport.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Mar/Apr 1662/63 Pepys, Samuel 1663
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