rin
Americannoun
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rin
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of rin
1870–75; < Japanese ri ( n ) < Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese lí; cf. likin
Example Sentences
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Fra bank to bank, fra wood to wood I rin, Ourhailit with my feeble fantasie; Like til a leaf that fallis from a tree, Or til a reed ourblawin with the win.
From Slate ● Feb. 14, 2012
His father, Piano Virtuoso Arthur Rubinstein, had trained him as a musician, and he turned out to have a natural tal ent for the language of hand and rin gers.
From Time Magazine Archive
The company is paying out $2,000,000 for jet charters alone, will spend another half million to quarter guests in Hong Kong's Manda rin and Hilton hotels and entertain them.
From Time Magazine Archive
It's out then speaks a bonny boy, To Earl Robert was something akin: "Many a time have I run thy errand, But this day with the tears I'll rin."
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
"It's a French offisher, sir, that has just been struck enow wi' a cannon-shot on the ramparts," replied the boy; "and, as I was passing at the time, he bade me rin for a priest."
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various
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