tyne
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See also: Tyne
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
See teen.
Noun[edit]
tyne
- (obsolete) anxiety; teen
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 15:
- with labour and long tyne
Verb[edit]
tyne (third-person singular simple present tynes, present participle tyning, simple past and past participle tyned)
- (transitive, obsolete) To lose.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre:
- ‘Yes, bonny wee thing, I’ll wear you in my bosom, lest my jewel I should tyne.’
- (intransitive, obsolete) To become lost; to perish.
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
tyne (plural tynes)
- Alternative form of tine
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tyne”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
tyne
- Alternative form of tyn (tin)
Scots[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
tyne (third-person singular simple present tynes, present participle tynin, simple past tint, past participle tint)
- To lose.
- Hoo muckle o weicht hae ye tint? ― How much weight have you lost?
- To cause somebody to lose a legal case.
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