Tine \Tine\, n. [See Teen affliction.]

Trouble; distress; teen. [Obs.]

``Cruel winter's tine.'' --Spenser.

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Tine \Tine\, v. t. [See Tind.]

To kindle; to set on fire. [Obs.]

See Tind. ``To tine the cloven wood.'' --Dryden.

Coals of contention and hot vengeance tind. --Spenser.

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Tine \Tine\, v. i. [Cf. Tine distress, or Tine to kindle.]

To kindle; to rage; to smart. [Obs.]

Ne was there slave, ne was there medicine That mote recure their wounds; so inly they did tine. --Spenser.

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Tine \Tine\, v. t. [AS. t?nan, from t?n an inclosure. See Town.]

To shut in, or inclose. [Prov. Eng.]

--Halliwell.

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Tine \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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)