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    Tine , n. [See Teen affliction.] Trouble; distress; teen. [Obs.] “Cruel winter's tine.”  
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    Tine, v. t. [See Tind.] To kindle; to set on fire. [Obs.] See Tind. “To tine the cloven wood.”  
    Dryden.

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    Coals of contention and hot vengeance tind.
    Spenser.

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    Tine, v. i. [Cf. Tine distress, or Tine to kindle.] To kindle; to rage; to smart. [Obs.]
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    Ne was there slave, ne was there medicine
    That mote recure their wounds; so inly they did tine.
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    Tine, v. t. [AS. tnan, from tn an inclosure. See Town.] To shut in, or inclose. [Prov. Eng.]
    Halliwell.

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    Tine, n. [OE. tind, AS. tind; akin to MHG. zint, Icel. tindr, Sw. tinne, and probably to G. zinne a pinnacle, OHG. zinna, and E. tooth. See Tooth.] A tooth, or spike, as of a fork; a prong, as of an antler.
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