Category:Tine

Tine, n. Etym: [see teen affliction.]

Defn: trouble; distress; teen. [obs.] "cruel winter's tine." Spenser.

Tine Tine, v. t. Etym: [see tind.]

Defn: to kindle; to set on fire. [obs.] See tind. "to tine the cloven Wood." Dryden. Coals of contention and hot vegneance tind. Spenser.

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

Defn: 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 Tine, v. t. Etym: [as. t, from t an inclosure. See town.]

Defn: to shut in, or inclose. [prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Tine 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.]

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