▪ I. rin, n.1 dial. ? Obs.
[Cf. OE. sealtes rynia app. in the same sense.]
Brine.
| 1787 W. Marshall Norfolk (1795) II. 386. |
▪ II. ‖ rin, n.2
(rɪn)
[Jap.]
A Japanese monetary unit, equal to 1/10 sen; also, a coin of this value. Also collect. as pl.
| 1875 [see yen1]. 1875 [see sen]. 1891 A. M. Bacon Japanese Girls & Women vi. 160 There is something picturesque about these sen and rin. 1931 Economist 2 May 947/1 [Japanese] savings banks followed suit..reducing the rate [on deposits] by 1 rin per diem or 0·365 per cent per annum. 1962 R. A. G. Carson Coins 548 The bronze sen and 5 rin pieces of this reign had as obverse type the kiri-flower crest which had appeared on the gold obans and kobans of the shogunate. |
▪ III. rin
Sc. var. run n. and v.