Twig

v. t.	1.	To twitch; to pull; to tweak. [imp. & p. p. Twigged (twĭgd); p. pr. & vb. n. Twigging.]
	1.
	1.	To understand the meaning of; to comprehend; as, do you twig me?
	2.	To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover. As if he were looking right into your eyes and twigged something there which you had half a mind to conceal. - Hawthorne.
n.	1.	A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no definite length or size. The Britons had boats made of willow twigs, covered on the outside with hides. - Sir W. Raleigh. Twig borer (Zool.) any one of several species of small beetles which bore into twigs of shrubs and trees, as the apple-tree twig borer (Amphicerus bicaudatus). Twig girdler (Zool.) See Girdler, 3. Twig rush (Bot.) any rushlike plant of the genus Cladium having hard, and sometimes prickly-edged, leaves or stalks. See Saw grass, under Saw.
v. t.	1.	To beat with twigs.

Noun	1.	twig - small branch or division of a branch; usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year Synonyms: branchlet, sprig
Verb	1.	twig - branch out in a twiglike manner; "The lightning bolt twigged in several directions"
	2.	twig - understand, usually after some initial difficulty; "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on" Synonyms: catch on, cotton on, get it, get onto, get wise, latch on, tumble

TWIG - Tree-Walking Instruction Generator. A code generator language. ML-Twig is an SML/NJ variant. ["Twig Language Manual", S.W.K. Tijang, CS TR 120, Bell Labs, 1986].

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