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Webster 1913 Edition


Tind

Tind

,
Verb.
T.
[OE.
tenden
, AS.
tendan
; akin to G.
zünden
, OHG.
zunten
, Icel.
tendra
, Sw.
tända
, Dan.
tænde
, Goth.
tandjan
to kindle,
tundnan
to be kindled, to burn. Cf.
Tinder
.]
To kindle.
[Obs.]
Bp. Sanderson.

Webster 1828 Edition


Tind

TIND

,
Verb.
T.
[Eng. tine; tinder.] To kindle. Obs. But hence,

Definition 2024


tind

tind

English

Alternative forms

Verb

tind (third-person singular simple present tinds, present participle tinding, simple past and past participle tinded or tind)

  1. (obsolete) To ignite, kindle.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.3:
      Her harty wondes so deepe into the mynd / Of the yong Damzell sunke, that great desire / Of warlike armes in her forthwith they tynd [...].

Etymology 2

From Middle English tind, tynd, from Old English tind (tine, prong, tooth), from Proto-Germanic *tinduz, *tindaz (prong, pinnacle), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)dont- (tooth, projection). Cognate with Dutch tinne (battlement), German Zinne (pinnacle, battlement), Danish tinde (pinnacle, battlement), Swedish tinne (tooth of a rake), Icelandic tindur (spike, tooth of a rake or harrow, pinnacle, peak, battlement). Related also to Dutch tand (tooth, tine), English tooth.

Alternative forms

Noun

tind (plural tinds)

  1. A prong or something projecting like a prong; an animal's horn; a branch or limb of a tree; a protruding arm.
  2. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) A branch of a deer's antler; the horn of a unicorn; a tooth of a harrow; a spike.

References

  • tind in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams


Icelandic

Noun

tind

  1. indefinite accusative singular of tindur

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic, of unknown ultimate origin. Cognate with Old High German zint, Old Norse tindr, and related to Old High German zinna (German Zinne ‘pinnacle’).

Pronunciation

Noun

tind m (nominative plural tindas)

  1. a point or prong on a weapon or implement; a tine

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