▪ I. tine, n.1
(taɪn)
Forms: α. 1, 3–6 tind, 4–6 tynde, 5 tyynde, 6 (9 dial.) tynd. β. (5 tene), 5–9 tyne, 6– tine.
[OE. tind = MHG. zint sharp point, ON. tindr tine (Sw. tinne, Da. dial. tind tooth of a rake):—OTeut. *tind-i{supz}. (To the same root prob. belongs OHG. zinna merlon of a wall:—OTeut. *tindjôn-.) OE. tind became in ME. tīnd, as in bind, etc.; whence, by loss of d, tine, as in tind v. Cf. WFris. tine, tooth of fork, etc.]
1. Each of a series of projecting sharp points on some weapon or implement, as a harrow, fork, eel-spear, etc.; a prong, spike, tooth.
| α a 700 Epinal Gloss. (O.E.T.) 873 Rostris, foraeuuallum, uel tindum. c 725 Corpus Gloss. (ibid.) 1753 Rostri, tindas. ? a 1400 Erasmus (Bedf. MS. lf. 280) in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 202 Castyng hym oftyn on þe tyndes of an harow. c 1400 Laud Troy Bk. 15724 Thei..Sclow hem thikkere with her arwes Than tyndes of tre stondis In harwes. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 494/1 Tyynde, prekyl (K. tynde, pryke), carnica. 1668 R. B. Adagia Scot. 37 Many maisters, quoth the Poddock to the Harrow, when every tind took her a knock. |
| β 1554 Lydgate's Bochas ix. vi. 200 b/2 The fiery tines of his brennyng arow. 1591 Greene Art Conny Catch. ii. (1592) 25 A long hooke..that hath at the end a crooke, with three tynes turned contrary. 1642 Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iii. xxi. 211 That fork needing strong tines wherewith one must thrust away nature. 1644 [Walsingham] Effigies True Fortitude 12 An old man..with his Pitchforke ran at Captaine Smith, and twice stroke the tynes thereof against his breast. 1649 W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. xvi. (1653) 104 Two or three sorts of Harrows, each Harrow having his Teeth or tines thicker than other. 1721 [see tig n.1 1]. a 1734 North Lives (1826) II. 201 A fork with five tines. 1789 Trans. Soc. Arts I. 100 A harrow composed of coulters instead of tines. 1828 Craven Gloss., Tine, the prong of a fork..; also the tooth of a harrow. 1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 92 The larger, called a drag rake, carrying about thirty tines compared with fifteen for the garden rake. 1978 Cornish Guardian 27 Apr. 10/4 (Advt.), 60in rotavator with new tines. 1979 P. Theroux Old Patagonian Express (1980) xiv. 289 The man jerked the tines of his fork into a slab of ham. |
2. a. Each of the pointed branches of a deer's horn.
| α [a 1000 Sal. & Sat. (Kemble) 150 Anra ᵹehwylc deor hæbbe synderlice xii hornas irene, and anra ᵹehwylc horn hæbbe xii tindas irene, and anra ᵹehwylc tind hæbbe synderlice xii ordas.] c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxix. (Placidas) 105 A gret hart..he saw betwen his tyndis brycht A verray croice schenand lycht. c 1430 Syr Tryam. 1085 The herte stroke hym wyth hys tyndys. 1513 Douglas æneis vii. ix. 18 This hart..With large heid and tyndis fwrnest fayr. 1593 Rites of Durham (1903) 24 Dyd cast backe his handes betwixt y⊇ Tyndes of y⊇ said harte to stay him selfe. |
| β 1495 Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xviii. xxx. 792 The aege of hartys is knowe by auntlers and tynes of his hornes, for euery yere it encreacith bi a tyne vnto vii yere. 1616 Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 684 You may likewise iudge of their age by the tynes of their hornes. 1825 Scott Talism. xxiv, A stag of ten tynes. 1877 Encycl. Brit. VII. 23 The antlers of the Stag are rounded, and bear three ‘tines’ or branches, and a crown consisting of three or more points... The antlers during the second year consist of a simple unbranched stem, to which a tine or branch is added in each successive year, until the normal development is attained. |
† b. A small branch or twig of a tree; the stalk of a fruit. Obs. rare.
| 13.. E.E. Allit. P. A. 78 As bornyst syluer þe lef onslydez, Þat þike con trylle on vcha tynde [rime schynde]. 13.. Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. lii. 82 His hed nou leoneþ on þornes tynde. c 1440 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 395 Pomes take, The tenes with, to stonde in cannes saue. |
c. transf. Each of two branches of a stream.
| 1875 R. F. Burton Gorilla L. (1876) II. 73 We reached a shallow fork, one tine of which..comes from the Congo Grande. |
† 3. A rung or step of a ladder. Obs. rare.
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 354 Scheome and pine, ase Seint Bernard seið, beoð þe two leddre stalen..and bitweonen þeos stalen beoð þe tindes ivestned of alle gode þeawes, bi hwuche me climbeð to þe blisse of heouene. |
4. [f. tine v.3] An act of harrowing.
| 1778 W. H. Marshall Minutes Agric. 12 Dec. an. 1776, Our first tine was with fine harrows, which broke the crum, without tearing-up the sod. 1825 Jamieson s.v., A double tynd, or teind, is harrowing the same piece of ground twice at the same yoking. 1854 Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XV. ii. 403 Some sow it after the barley, and give it a tine with the harrows. |
† 5. attrib. and Comb.: tine-knife, see quot.; tine nail (tynd nale), a large sharp-pointed nail, a spike. Obs.
| 1555–6 Burgh Rec. Edinb. (1871) II. 322 For xixxx of grait tynd nalis to the greit yat of the tolbuith. 1888 Sheffield Gloss., Tine-knife, a knife whose haft is made from a tine of a stag's antler. |
▪ II. † tine, n.2 Obs. rare—1.
In 4 tin.
[f. tine v.2]
Loss.
| c 1320 Sir Tristr. 3006 In wining and in tin Trewe to ben ay, In ioie and in pin, In al þing, to say. |
▪ III. † tine, n.3 Obs.
Also tyne.
[a. F. tine large vessel, tub (c 1230 in Godef.), Sp., It. tina:—L. tīna wine-jar.]
A vessel for brewing; a tub, vat.
| [1310 Letter-Bk. D. Lond. lf. 99 b, Item bona capta..super Aliciam relictam Walteri le Cuuer .j. Cumelina et .j. Tyna, precium vj d.] 1337 Ibid. F. lf. 20 Hoi'es bracinas tenentes..qui mittunt... Braciatores suos cum vasis suis vocatis Tynes ad dictum Conductum. 1388–9 Abingdon Rolls (Camden) 57, ij vates et j tyne. a 1400 Chaucer Balade to Rosemounde 9 For thogh I wepe of teres ful a tyne [cf. Fr. Le jor i ot plore de larmes pleine tine (see Skeat's Chaucer I. 549).] |
▪ IV. tine, n.4 Obs. exc. dial.
Also tyne.
[Etymology uncertain: see Note below.]
A wild vetch or tare; a name for certain leguminous plants growing as weeds in corn, etc., and climbing by their tendrils, esp. the strangle-tare, Vicia hirsuta; also locally V. Cracca, and Lathyrus tuberosus.
| c 1540 J. Heywood in J. Redford Mor. Play Wit & Sc. (Shaks. Soc.) 79 This vice I lyken to a weede That husbond⁓men have named tyne, The whych in corne doth roote or brede. 1567 Golding Ovid's Met. v. (1593) 120 The tines and bryars did overgrow the wheate. 1573 Tusser Husb. (1878) 109 The titters or tine makes hop to pine. 1707 Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 128 The Docks, Tyne, Tares, Mayweed, &c. pull up by hand. 1726 Dict. Rust. (ed. 3), Chalkly-Lands..naturally produce May-weed, Poppeys, Tine, &c. 1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farm. 300 Wild Thetch, Tyne, or Bind-weed, is an ugly Companion amongst the Corn. |
b. Also called tine-grass, tine-tare (tintare, tyntare), tine-weed.
| c 1450 Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 186 Trifolium acutum, an. wildetare uel tintare. Ibid. 189 Viciola, angl. tintara. 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 35 It groweth halfe a yarde hie, leaued like Tyntare. 1621 G. Sandys Ovid's Met. v. (1626) 101 Tintare [pr. kintare], and Darnell [L. lolium tribulique] tire The fetter'd Wheat; and weeds that through it spire. 1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farm. 302 Cliver or chickweed..twists about the Wheat, like the Tyne-weed. 1744–50 ― Mod. Husbandm. I. i. 143 The Tyne-grass and the Lady-finger grass are the two best sorts of Natural Meadow Grasses. 1861 Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. II. 134 Vicia hirsuta (Hairy Tare)..the Tine Tare as it is called in some counties. c 1878 Oxford Bible-Helps 217 Lentiles,..a species of vetch, resembling the tine-tare, grown on poorer soils. |
[Note. As tintare, tine-tare, appears to occur nearly a century earlier than the simple form tine, it was possibly the original name, its first element being one of the other tine words. If originally applied to Vicia hirsuta, the sense ‘small or diminutive tare’ (f. tine a.) would be appropriate enough. But perhaps derivation from tine v.2, or tine n.1 or n.2, in reference to the injury or trouble which it causes, is more likely. Cf. the name strangle-tare.]
▪ V. † tine, n.5 Obs.
Also 6 tyne. (Only in and after Spenser.)
[By-form of teen n.1 in various senses. Perh. from Norse: cf. Norw. dial. t{yacu}ne injury: cf. tine v.2 2.]
Affliction, trouble, sorrow.
| 1590 Spenser F.Q. i. ix. 15 To seek her out with labor and long tyne. 1591 ― Teares Muses 3 Those piteous plaints and sorrowfull sad tine [rime nine]. 1600 Tourneur Trans. Met. To his Booke, The more the world doth seeke to work their tine. 1610 Fletcher Faithf. Sheph. i. iii, And far more heavy be thy grief and tine. |
▪ VI. † tine, a. and n.6 Obs.
Also 5 tyn, 5–7 tyne.
[Appears as adj. and n. about or soon after 1400; origin unknown: see Note below, and tiny a.]
A. adj. Very small, diminutive: = tiny a.
App. always preceded by little: cf. Sc. little wee (bairn).
| a 1400–50 Alexander 507 Scho had layd in his lape a litill tyne egg. ? c 1450 Song ii. in Two Cov. Corpus Chr. Plays (E.E.T.S.) 32 Lully, lulla, thow littell tine child, By by, lully lullay, thow littell tyne child. c 1460 Towneley Myst. xii. 467 Hayll, lytyll tyn mop, rewarder of mede!.. Hayll, lytyll mylk sop! hayll, dauid sede! 1597 Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, v. i. 29 A ioynt of Mutton, and any pretty little tine Kick⁓shawes. Ibid. v. iii. 60 Welcome my little tyne theefe. 1605 ― Lear iii. ii. 74 He that has and a little-tyne wit. |
B. n. or quasi-n. A very little space, time, or amount; a very little; ‘a bit’.
App. always prec. by little: cf. similar Sc. use of wee: Barbour Bruce vii. 182 The kyng than wynkit a little wee.
| c 1420 ? Lydg. Assembly of Gods 1063 He was constreynyd..A lytyll tyne abak to make a bew retret. Ibid. 1283 A lyttyll tyne hys ey castyng hym besyde. 1523 Skelton Garl. Laurel 505 Sir, I pray you a lytyll tyne stande backe. 1546 J. Heywood Prov. i. xi. Wks. (1562) D ij, For when prouander prickt them a little tyne. 1556 ― Spider & F. lx. Cc iv b, But stey a litle tine [rime fine]. |
[Note. In the absence of evidence, the etymology of tine, its accidence, and its relation to tiny, have received a good deal of discussion: see Wedgwood Dict. Eng. Etym. (1872) 684, Skeat Notes on Eng. Etymol. 300, E. Weekley in Trans. Philol. Soc. 1909. Prof. Skeat inclines to take tine as a later shortening of *tiné, afterwards tiny, and *tiné as a n., possibly a. OF. tinée ‘tubful’. But though it is possible that tine was orig. a n., in sense ‘bit’, the evidence is that it was always a monosyllable. Prof. Weekley suggests the possibility of tine, tiné, tiny being aphetic for OF. un tantin or tantinet ‘a little time or quantity’, related to L. tantillus ‘so small, so little’. This would suit the sense, but evidence connecting the forms has not been found (cf. tiny a.).]
▪ VII. tine, tyne, v.1 Obs. exc. dial.
(taɪn)
Forms: see below.
[O.E. t{yacu}nan = OFris. tîna, OLG., MLG., LG. tûnen, EFris. tûnen, tünen, MDu. tûnen, Du. tuinen, OHG. zûnen (MHG. ziunen, G. zäunen):—OTeut. *tûn-jan, f. *tûno- enclosure: see town. From OE. t{yacu}n-an, ME. had three dialect types, αsouthern, tün-, tuin-; βmidl. and north. tyn-, tin-, tine; γKentish tēn, teen-.]
A. Illustration of Forms.
(α) pres. 1 t{yacu}nan, 3 tunen (ü), 5 tuyne, tuynde. pa. tense 1 t{yacu}nde, 3 tunde. pa. pple. 1 ᵹet{yacu}ned, 4–5 ytund.
| 688–95 Laws of Ine c. 42 Gif..hæbben sume ᵹetyned hiora dæl, sume næbben. a 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. iv. iii. (1890) 268 Þonne tynde he his bec. c 950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xxiii. 13 ᵹie tyndon ric heofna. a 1000 in Anglia IX. 261 Me mæiᵹ..on sumera..tynan. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 43 Ne þat þe deuel me swelȝe, ne þat þe pit tune ouer me his muð. Ibid. 181 Hie tuneð to hire fif ȝaten, and penneð wel faste. c 1205 Lay. 15320 Þa ȝæten heo tunden uaste. c 1400 Trevisa's Higden (Rolls) VI. 229 Þe ȝates..were i-schette [MSS. βtynde, γytund]. a 1450 Myrc Par. Priest 63 Tuynde þyn ye þat thow ne se The cursede worldes vanyte. |
(β) pres. 3 tinen, 4–5 tynen, tynde, 5 tyn-yn, 5–6, 9 dial. tyne, 7–9 dial. tine. pa. tense 4 tyned, 5 tynd. pa. pple. 3 tined, 5 tynde, tynyd, tyndyd, 9 tined.
| c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 43 Þe pit tineð his muð ouer þe man, þe lið on fule synnen. Ibid. 101 Þe ȝiate of paradis, þe þurh Eue gilte wið hem was er tined. 1382 Tyndynge [see B. 1]. c 1400 Tynde [see α]. a 1400–50 Alexander 2193 Þen tened þe Thebees folke & tynd to þe ȝatis. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 494/1 Tynyn, or make a tynynge, sepio. c 1460 Pol. Rel. & L. Poems 167 Aȝen þee wole y my ȝatis tyne. 1585 Jas. I Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 56 And efter that made Argus for to tyne..all his windois. 1674 Ray N.C. Words, To Tine, to shut, fence. Tine the door; shut the door. 1825 Brockett N.C. Words, Tine, to shut, to inclose. 1874 Tined [see B. 1]. |
(γ) pres. 4 tende, 6 tene, 7 teene, 7–9 dial. teen. pa. tense 4–5 tende. pa. pple. 4 i-tend, 5 yteynd, 7 dial. teened.
| 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 443 Ȝif eny dore were i-tend [γytund]. Ibid. 453 To tende [see B. 1]. c 1420 Chron. Vilod. 3725 Bot þe durus of þat chapelle weron þo y-teynde. 1626 in Archæol. Cant. (1902) XXV. 40 Peter Denham hath lately teened and fenced up a common foot⁓way. 1674 Ray N.C. Words 49 To enclose, fence, hedge, or teen. c 1700 Kennett MS. Lansd. 1033 lf. 389 To Teen (Lanc. to Tine), to hedge or to enclose a field, in Kent. 1887 Kentish Gloss., Teener, Tener, a man who teens or keeps in order a raddle-fence. |
B. Signification.
1. trans. To close, shut (a door, gate, or window; a house, one's mouth, eyes, etc.). Also with to adv. (cf. shut to), and absol.
| a 900 [see A. α]. c 950 Lindisf. Gosp. Luke xiii. 25, & tyneð þæt duro. a 1225 Ancr. R. 62 An ancre nule nout tunen hire eiðurles aȝein deað of helle & of soule. 1382 Wyclif Gen. xix. 6 Loth gon oute to hem..and tyndynge to the dore, seith. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 453 Þe Est ȝate of þe temple..was so hevy of sound bras þat twenty men were besy i-now for to tende [MSS. α.tynde, β.tyne, γ.tuynde] it. a 1450 Myrc Par. Priest 490 To tuynen and open at heyre byddynge. 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §141 Yf ony gate..go not lyghtly to open and tyne. 1561 Child-Marriages 114 That she did se hym tyne the windowes, and put to the dore with his fote. 1674 [see A. β]. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd xv, Cainy and I haven't tined our eyes to-night. |
2. a. To enclose or shut (a thing) up in something.
| 13.. E.E. Allit. P. B. 498 Tyl þay had tyþyng fro þe tolke þat tyned hem þer-inne [i.e. in the ark]. 1888 A. S. Wilson Lyric Hopeless Love xxviii. 92 Come, choral voices,..And in my soul the sweetness tine Which harps of Eden wear. |
b. To enclose with a hedge or fence; to fence, to hedge in.
| 688–95 [see A. α]. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 494/1 Tynyd, or hedgydde (P. tyndyd), septus. 1570–6 Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 376 Their [the Saxons'] woorde (Tynan) to tyne, or inclose with a hedge. 1598 Stow Surv. xlix. (1603) 547 To inclose or tyne. 1604 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 437 That they leaue to tine and keep so that his neighbor be harmelesse by the cattel. 1864 W. Barnes in Macm. Mag. Oct. 477 An' there wer my orcha'd a-tined Wi' a hedge on a steep⁓zided bank. 1892 Brooke Hist. E. Eng. Lit. ix. 202 The place was tyned or girded with a fence of rods. |
c. To make or repair (a hedge or fence).
| 1522 MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., Paied for tenying of a hedge. 1630 Ibid., For two bundles of bushes to teene our orchard hedges viij d. 1887 Kentish Gloss., Teen, to make a hedge with raddles [= green sticks]. |
† 3. fig. To confine, restrain to something. Obs.
| c 1430 Hymns Virg. 25 To þat loue y schal me so faste tyne, Þat y in herte it euermore holde. |
▪ VIII. tine, tyne, v.2 Chiefly (now only) north. dial. and Sc.
(taɪn)
Pa. tense and pple. tint (tɪnt). Forms: 3– tine; also 4 tin, 4–6 tyn, 4–9 tyne, (5 teyn, 6 tyen). pa. tense 4 tinte, 4–6 tynt(e, 4– tint; also 5 tynit, 6 (Spenser) tyned, 8 tined. pa. pple. 4 itint, y-tint, y-tent, 5 ytynt; 4–6 tinte, tynt, 5 tynte, tynde, 4– tint.
[a. ON. t{yacu}na (:—*tiunjan), Norw., older Da. and Sw. dial. tȳne, to destroy, lose, to perish, deriv. of tjón loss, damage (cogn. with OE. téon injury, etc.: see teen n.1, v.1).]
1. trans. To lose; to suffer deprivation of; to cease to have or enjoy.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 5518 (Cott.) Þan has þair will our wiþer⁓win, And we ma sua our landes tin [v.rr. tine, tyne]. c 1300 Havelok 2023 That he ne tinte no catel. 13.. Sir Beues (A.) 4386 Treitour! now is þe lif itint. c 1320 Sir Tristr. 1911 Þou hast y tent þi pride. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 15 He is now in poynt his regne forto tyne. a 1340 Hampole Psalter lxi. 10 It is a harmefull winninge to win cattell & tine rightowsnes. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xviii. 140 Þat was tynt þorw tre, tree shal it wynne. a 1400 Octouian 1147 Tho both hys armes were y-tent. c 1400 Destr. Troy 12467 Trees, thurgh tempestes, tynde hade þere leues. c 1460 Towneley Myst. i. 160 Oure Ioye is tynt. 1549 Compl. Scot. x. 83 There can no thing be tynt, bot quhen he that tynis ane thing..knauis nocht quhair it is. 1575 Churchyard Chippes (1817) 184 Our greedy mind gaines gold and tyens good name. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 51 The Salmonte..tynes in smal watiris,..the gret fatnes, that they fand in the braid Sey. 1606 Warner Alb. Eng. xiv. lxxxvii. (1612) 358 Both their Kings in following fight did brauely tyne their liues. 1721 Ramsay Prospect of Plenty 162 To stow them..In barrels tight, that shall nae liquor tine. 1752 J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 31 The Repledger..tined his Court for Year and Day. 1790 Burns Tam o' Shanter 188 Tam tint his reason a' thegither. 1865 G. MacDonald A. Forbes 51, I dinna think the Lord 'll tyne the grip o' his father's son. 1886 Stevenson Kidnapped xix, James must have tint his wits. |
b. To fail to gain, attain, or win: = lose v. 7, 8; absol. to lose the battle, be defeated: = lose v. 8 b.
| c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 3518 For if ðu it ȝernes and ȝisse, ðu tines vn-ended blisce. 1340 Hampole Pr. Consc. 2054 Þus sal þai dyghe and heven blis tyne And be putted til endeles pyne. a 1400 Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS. 38 Þou tynes þe mede of þi seruyce. 1549 Compl. Scot. ix. 80 He tint threttyne battellis. c 1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) ii. 48 To se quha tynt or wan The feild. 1681 S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 25 Whether he gain the day or tine, He never misseth to kill nine. 1721 Ramsay Prospect of Plenty 50 She grasps the shadow, but the substance tines. a 1810 Tannahill Poems (1846) 101 I'm fear'd that I may tyne The love that ye hae promised me. |
c. To spend in vain or to no purpose, to waste: = lose v. 6.
| c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 43 Kyng Suane gaf assaut,..Mykelle folk he les, & tynt his trauaile. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. xv. 8 Ich haue..counsailede þe..No tyme to tyne. 1563 Davidson Confut. Kennedy in Wodrow Soc. Misc. (1844) 216 Thay doctours tynt thare tyme. 1631 A. Craig Pilgr. & Heremite 9 My true travell shall bee tint. 1827 Scott Two Drovers Introd., If they had burned the rudas queen for a witch, I am thinking, may be, they would not have tyned their coals. |
† d. To cause the loss of: = lose v. 9 a. Obs.
| c 1470 Henryson Mor. Fab. x. (Fox & Wolf) vi, This tarying will tyne the all thy thank. 1588 A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. 223 Receauing trew and Christian iustice..in stead of that whilk Adam by his inobedience tint to him and vs. |
e. absol. or intr. To suffer loss: = Lose v. 4.
| 1340 Hampole Pr. Consc. 1457 Now haf we ioy, now haf we pyn, Now we wyn, now we tyn. c 1400 Destr. Troy 1208 Þe Troiens..tynte of þere folkes. c 1470 Henry Wallace vi. 460 Bot thow be war, thow tynys off thi chaffair. 1862 A. Hislop Prov. Scot. 27 A tale never tines in the telling. |
† f. trans. To incur (a penalty): cf. lose v. 3 g.
| 1426 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 11/1 Wnder the payn off perel that efter folowys, and al that yhe may teyn enent ws. 1478 Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1879) I. 212 At al thir pwntis forsad be treuly kepit ondyr al peynis tha ma tyne of law. |
g. To let slip from one's remembrance, to forget: = lose v. 5 d.
| 1513 Douglas æneis ix. v. 76, I hecht forsuith that deid sall nevyr be tynt. 1837 R. Nicoll Poems (1843) 123 Thae auld-warld fancies may heart winna tyne. Ibid. 188 Your father's dying counsels from Your bosoms never tine. |
h. To leave far behind, as in a race; to outstrip entirely; to get far ahead of: = lose v. 5 c. dial.
| 1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb vii, Oor 'Liza an' you ees't to be heid-y-peers, but ye're tynin her a'thegither. |
II. † 2. To ruin, destroy, bring to nought: = lose v. 2. (Cf. L. perdĕre to destroy, and to lose.)
| a 1300 Cursor M. 2911 Sua tin [v.r. tyne] þai þam witouten end Þat wil noght þam in time mend. Ibid. 4774 For þof he proue his freind wit pine, Þar-for wil he noght him tine. 13.. E.E. Allit. P. B. 907 We schal tyne þis toun & trayþely disstrye. c 1400 Apol. Loll. 43 If God schal tyne alle þoo þat spek lesyng. c 1520 Nisbet N. Test. in Scots Mark xii. 9 He sal cum and he sal tyne the teelars [Wyclif tilieris], and geue the wyneyarde to vtheris. 1589 R. Bruce Serm. (Wodrow Soc.) 110 He has power only to save and tine. |
3. intr. To be lost, ruined, or destroyed; to perish: = lose v. 1.
| 13.. Sir Beues (A.) 652 Tiding com to king Ermyn, Þat Beues hadde mad his men tyn. 13.. Cursor M. 13511 (Cott.) Quen þai had eten, þat drightin Bad þam late na crummes tin. c 1475 Rauf Coilȝear 58 Baith myself and my hors is reddy for to tyne. 1570 Satir. Poems Reform. xii. 97 For want of ane I wald nocht all suld tyne. c 1575 Balfour's Practicks, Ship Laws (1754) 623 Gif ony ship tine be storm of wether. 1792 Burns Gallant Weaver ii, I was fear'd my heart would tine, And I gied it to the weaver. a 1810 Tannahill Poems (1846) 97 I'll tend thee..Wi' love that ne'er shall tyne. |
▪ IX. tine, v.3
[f. tine n.1]
1. trans. To furnish with tines or prongs: see also tined.
| a 1518 Skelton Magnyf. 728 My tonge is with Fauell forked and tyned. 1760 [see tining vbl. n.3]. |
2. To scratch or work with tines; to harrow.
| 1766 [see tining vbl. n.3]. 1854 Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XV. ii. 405 Two drills are tined at a time. |
▪ X. tine
variant of tind v. Obs., to kindle.
▪ XI. tine
obs. form of thine (after a dental).