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rugines

rugines is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rugine.

Meaning of rugine

Verb

rugine (third-person singular simple present rugines, present participle rugining, simple past and past participle rugined)

  1. (transitive) To scrape or rasp (a bone etc.); to scale.
    • if you do not rugine that away, the Callus will be flow in thrusting out; and if you do rugine it, the deeper you enter into it, the browner and softer the Bone will be.1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC

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Questions about rugines

What is rugines the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Rugines is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rugine.

Words near rugines in the dictionary

  1. Rugia
  2. Rugian
  3. Rugians
  4. rugine
  5. rugined
  6. rugines
  7. Ruginești
  8. rugining
  9. Ruginoasa
  10. rugins
  11. rugitus

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