atween, atweene, atwene

& prep. [Eng. a; twain.] [ATWAIN, TWAIN. Cf. also BETWEEN.] Between. The form ATWEENE is now obsolete. "From her faire eyes wiping the deawy wet Which softly stild, and ki ing them atweene." Spenser: F. Q., IV. vii. 35. In English the form atween is obsolete in prose, but is employed in poetry. In Scotch it is still used colloquially. "It was, I ween, a lovely spot of ground; And there a season atween June and May." Thomson : Castle of Indolence , 1. 2. "Low-tinkled with a bell-like flow Atween the blo oms." Tennyson: Song. we'll guide him atween us,.."- Scott : Anth quary , ch. xv. a-twe'esh, prep . [ATWIXT.] ( Scotch .) *atwend, v.t. [A.S. at , denoting opposition; wend an to go.] [WEND.] To turn away. "Heo mai hire gult afwende ." Hule and Nightingale, 1,415.