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It has manufactures of mohair, twift, hatbands, buttons, and thread; and mills for the winding of filk.

The general gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary [microform] : containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world : with the government, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants; the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of each country, the trade, manufactures, and curiosities of the cities and towns; their longitude, latitude, bearings and distances in English miles from remarkable places; and the various events by which they have been distinguished : including an account of the counties, cities, boroughs, market-towns, and principal villages, in Great Britain and Ireland 1797

'Twas I who taught that vine, now too old to produce its wonted clufters, to twift kfelf through that lattice.

The knights; or, Sketches of the heroic age 1797

The rear divifions of a battalion, or ffldre luinn. confidcrable column in march, conftantly follow efdj turning and twift which the head makes; each fib - ceflively changing; its direction at whatever point ihc leading divifion may have fo done. —

Rules and Regulations for the Formations, Field Exercise and Movements of His Majesty's Forces Great Britain Adjutant-General's Office, Sir William Fawcett 1794

Tar 'to twift it a good deal to make it draw equally.

The Bee, or, Literary weekly intelligencer [microform] : consisting of original pieces and selections from performances of merit, foreign and domestic : a work calculated to disseminate useful knowledge among all ranks of people at a small expense 1791

But without the untwilting machine this would be altogether imprafticable, as the filaments of the v/ool are, by the twift, ib conlpadly join - ed together, that they could not be feparated till the iwilt hs again taken off, and the thread fo much opened in its texture as to admit of the filaments being drawn out to a greater length by a fecond, or even by a third operation.

The Bee, or, Literary weekly intelligencer [microform] : consisting of original pieces and selections from performances of merit, foreign and domestic : a work calculated to disseminate useful knowledge among all ranks of people at a small expense 1791

An illuflration of. a tree» that* has 'gotten an inclined twift by the wind in it's age; and of one that has recovered from fuch a twift by growth.

Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain; particularily the High-lands of Scotland.. 1789

The Canada Moonseed will twine round trees to die neight of fifteen or fixteen feet; and if there be no trees near for k to afpire by, its aim oft numbcrlefs branches will twift and run one among another, fo as to form a thick clofe-fet bufh.

Planting and Ornamental Gardening: A Practical Treatise 1785

Body, red Silk and Gold-twift, and a red Cock's Hackle, till Jum.

The Art of Angling 1781

Ah, noble friend! with what impatience all That know thy worth, and know how prodigal Of thy great foul thou art (longing to twift Bays with that ivy, which fo early kifsM Thy youthful temples) with what horror we Think on the blind events of war and thee I To fate expofing that all-knowing breaft Among the throng, as cheaply as die reft:

The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1779

With their tails they make: niortar, with which they fill up all the vacancies be - tween the flakes, which are bound together with twift* cd boughs; and thus the pile is conftruAed.

A philosophical and political history of the British settlements and trade in North America ... 1779