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rin

verbnounattested in dialogue

  • //ɹɪn//

To run.

verb

  1. 1

    To run.

    "Besides," he continued, "I'm no sure that I'm right in rinning—rinning! I'm no rinning , I'm ganging; weel then I'm no sure that I'm right doing a witch's errand, whether rinning or ganging, sae I'se stand still and consider it.[…]."

    O! gin I were where Gadie^([the name of a rivulet]) rins,

Etymology

From Middle English rinnen, from Old English rinnan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną (“to run”). More at run.

noun

  1. 1

    A coin worth ¹⁄₁₀₀₀ of a Japanese yen, no longer in circulation.

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 厘(りん) (rin).

Forms

past tense
ran
past participle
run
present participle
rinning
third person singular
rins
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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