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rine.

To touch.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb
  1. To touch.

    obsolete · transitive
  2. To concern; affect.

    UK · dialectal · transitive
  3. To pertain to; fall to.

    UK · dialectal · transitive
  4. To tend to a certain effect or outcome.

    UK · dialectal · transitive
Where this word comes from

From Middle English rinen, from Old English hrīnan, from Proto-West Germanic *hrīnan, from Proto-Germanic *hrīnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to strip, touch”).

noun
  1. A watercourse or ditch.

    UK · dialectal
Where this word comes from

From Middle English rune, from Old English ryne (“a course, run, running, orbit, a flow, flux, period of time, cycle, luster, expanse, extent”), from Proto-Germanic *runiz (“course”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to cause to move, grow”). Cognate with German Ronne (“a channel”), Icelandic ryne (“a flow, stream”). See runnel.

noun
  1. Alternative form of rind.

    alt-of · alternative
Where this word comes from

Variation of rind.

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