TINING

Verb

tining

present participle of tine

Source: Wiktionary


TINE

Tine, n. Etym: [See Teen affliction.]

Definition: Trouble; distress; teen. [Obs.] "Cruel winter's tine." Spenser.

Tine, v. t. Etym: [See Tind.]

Definition: To kindle; to set on fire. [Obs.] See Tind. "To tine the cloven wood." Dryden. Coals of contention and hot vegneance tind. Spenser.

Tine, v. i. Etym: [Cf. Tine distress, or Tine to kindle.]

Definition: To kindle; to rage; to smart. [Obs.] Ne was there slave, ne was there medicine That mote recure their wounds; so inly they did tine. Spenser.

Tine, v. t. Etym: [AS. t, from t an inclosure. See Town.]

Definition: To shut in, or inclose. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Tine, n. Etym: [OE. tind, AS. tind; akin to MHG. zint, Icel. tindr, Sw. tinne, and probably to G. zinne a pinnacle, OHG. zinna, and E. tooth. See Tooth.]

Definition: A tooth, or spike, as of a fork; a prong, as of an antler.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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