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noun

Twitch n.

The act of twitching; a pull with a jerk; a short, sudden, quick pull; as, a twitch by the sleeve.

A short, spastic contraction of the fibers or muscles; a simple muscular contraction; as, convulsive twitches; a twitch in the side.

(Far.) A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse. By twisting the stick the compression is made sufficiently painful to keep the animal quiet during a slight surgical operation.

verb

Twitch v. t. (past & past part. twitched; pres. part. twitching) To pull with a sudden jerk; to pluck with a short, quick motion; to snatch; as, to twitch one by the sleeve; to twitch a thing out of another's hand; to twitch off clusters of grapes. "Thrice they twitched the diamond in her ear."

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Etymology of 'Twitch'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Twitch" Quotes from Famous Books

... that had reached his ears one night as he waited at the stage-door, had set loose a train of horrible thoughts. He remembered it as if it had been the lash of a hunting-crop across his face. His brows knit together into a wedge-like furrow, and with a twitch of pain he ...

— The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde

... greater regard to equality. They talked, as they fished, of politics, religion, philosophy, human nature, the useful arts, abolition, and most other subjects that would be likely to interest a couple of Americans who had nothing to do but to twitch, from time to time, at two lines dangling in the water. Although few people possess less of the art of conversation than our own countrymen, no other nation takes as wide a range in its discussions. ...

— Home as Found • James Fenimore Cooper

... practice he had tripped over an ugly outgrowth from the legendary custom. The girl hated him, there was no doubt about it; and it was equally certain he loved her. Particularly caustic was the reflection that a twitch of his finger would get him Katharine as his wife, for before long the Queen-Regent was again attempting secret negotiations to bring this about. Yes, he could get the girl's body by a couple of pen-strokes, and had he been older ...

— Chivalry • James Branch Cabell

... stinking did hang in all that part of the Gorge, by reason of the Slug; and signs of disgust, as you shall think; and the great and mildewed body of the thing yet to settle and twitch, as I did look, as it did come properly unto death in all that mighty bulk. And everywhere, the skin of the Beast did be set into great wrinklings, and horrid blotchings to be upon the improper whiteness ...

— The Night Land • William Hope Hodgson

... this Marton could scarcely control the skin of his head, so often did he have to twitch his eyebrows in order to express the above opinion, which he ...

— Debts of Honor • Maurus Jokai

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