Tine (?), n. [See Teen affliction.]
Trouble; distress; teen.
[Obs.] "Cruel winter's
tine."
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Tine, v. t. [See Tind.]
To kindle; to set on fire. [Obs.] See Tind.
"To
tine the cloven wood."
Dryden.
Coals of contention and hot vegneance tind.
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Tine, v. i. [Cf. Tine distress, or Tine to kindle.]
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.
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Tine, v. t. [AS. tnan, from tn an inclosure. See Town.]
To shut in, or inclose.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
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Tine, n. [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.]
A tooth, or spike, as of a fork; a prong, as of an antler.
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