tining

Verb (1)

tine (third-person singular simple present tines, present participle tining, simple past and past participle tined)

1. (obsolete) To kindle; to set on fire.
   • Coals of contention and hot vengeance tin'd.1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
2. (obsolete) To rage; to smart.
   • Ne was there salve, ne was there medicine, / That mote recure their wounds; so inly they did tine.1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Verb (2)

tine (third-person singular simple present tines, present participle tining, simple past and past participle tined)

1. (archaic) To shut in, or enclose.
   • When I was then surrounded on every side by the fiends, and tined about by the blindness of the darkness, then hove I my eyes up and looked hither and yond, whether any help were to come to me, that I might be rescued; […]1852, Alfred the Great, translated by Alfred Committee, The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great, volume II, page 388

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