tyne
See also: Tyne
English
Etymology 1
See teen.
Noun
tyne
Verb
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- (transitive, obsolete) To lose.
- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
- ‘Yes, bonny wee thing, I’ll wear you in my bosom, lest my jewel I should tyne.’
- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
- (intransitive, obsolete) To become lost; to perish.
Etymology 2
Noun
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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
Middle English
Noun
tyne
- Alternative form of tin
Scots
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
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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