Crossword clues for one or two
one or two
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Two \Two\ (t[=oo]), a. [OE. two, twa, properly fem. & neut.,
twei, twein, tweien, properly masc. (whence E. twain), AS.
tw[=a], fem. & neut., tw[=e]gen, masc., t[=u], neut.; akin to
OFries. tw[=e]ne, masc., tw[=a], fem. & neut., OS. tw[=e]ne,
masc., tw[=a], fem., tw[=e], neut., D. twee, OHG. zw[=e]ne,
zw[=o], zwei, G. zwei, Icel. tveir, tv[ae]r, tvau, Sw.
tv[*a], Dan. to, Goth. twai, tw[=o]s, twa; Lith. du, Russ.
dva, Ir. & Gael. da, W. dau, dwy, L. duo, Gr. dy`o, Skr. dva.
[root]300. Cf. Balance, Barouche, Between, Bi-,
Combine, Deuce two in cards, Double, Doubt, Dozen,
Dual, Duet, Dyad, Twain, Twelve, Twenty, Twice,
Twilight, Twig, Twine, n., Twist.]
One and one; twice one. ``Two great lights.''
--Gen. i. 16.
``Two black clouds.''
--Milton.
Note: Two is often joined with other words, forming compounds signifying divided into, consisting of, or having, two parts, divisions, organs, or the like; as two-bladed, two-celled, two-eared, two-flowered, twohand, two-headed, two-horse, two-leafed or two-leaved, two-legged, two-lobed, two-masted, two-named, two-part, two-petaled, two-pronged, two-seeded, two-sided, two-story, two-stringed, two-foothed, two-valved, two-winged, and the like.
One or two, a phrase often used indefinitely for a small number.
Usage examples of "one or two".
Upon this, and one or two other circumstances, Steelkilt systematically built the plan of his revenge.
The horse neighed three or four times, and I waited to hear some answers in a human voice, but I observed no other returns than in the same dialect, only one or two a little shriller than his.
He opened this, carefully, on his knee, and it contained a very little quantity of hair: not more than one or two long golden hairs, which he had, in some old day, wound off upon his finger.
At last I beheld several animals in a field, and one or two of the same kind sitting in trees.
Then came one or two dead, in red coats, not English, but of one kind all—.
Then ten or twelve men, each with an iron-bound club three or four feet long, came up, and Kerick pointed out one or two of the drove that were bitten by their companions or were too hot, and the men kicked those aside with their heavy boots made of the skin of a walrus's throat, and then Kerick said: 'Let go!
I was afraid of trampling on every traveller I met, and often called aloud to have them stand out of the way, so that I had like to have gotten one or two broken heads for my impertinence.
The point was to get him to L A and in to one or two or three places where I could work on him.
She thought she recognized one or two Mauritianssoldiers from the household guards.
There are scarce three feet of water here, and except where one or two deeps pass across it there is no more anywhere between this and the land.