1. twain - Noun
2. twain - Adjective
3. twain - Verb
5. Twain - Proper noun
Two; -- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAll modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. Ernest Hemingway
I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered - now I have only one doubt left - which of the twain was God? Aleister Crowley
Thinking of Melville, thinking of Poe, thinking of Mark Twain and Vachel Lindsay, thinking of Jack London and Tom Wolfe, one begins to feel there is almost no way of becoming a creative writer in America without being a loser. Nelson Algren
What is the Truth? was askt of yore. Reply all object Truth is one As twain of halves aye makes a whole; the moral Truth for all is none. Richard Francis Burton
For iii may keep a counsel if twain be away. Geoffrey Chaucer
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet... (Rudyard Kipling) English Proverb