tyne

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

See teen.

Noun

tyne

  1. (obsolete) anxiety; teen

Verb

tyne (third-person singular simple present tynes, present participle tyning, simple past and past participle tyned)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To lose.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To become lost; to perish.

Etymology 2

Noun

tyne (plural tynes)

  1. Alternative form of tine

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tyne”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Middle English

Noun

tyne

  1. Alternative form of tyn (tin)

Scots

Etymology

From Old Norse týna.

Pronunciation

Verb

tyne (third-person singular simple present tynes, present participle tynin, simple past tint, past participle tint)

  1. To lose.
    Hoo muckle o weicht hae ye tint?How much weight have you lost?
  2. To cause somebody to lose a legal case.