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
"And sen I maun zour errand rin Sae sair against my will, I'se mak a vow and keip it trow, It sall be done for ill."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (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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