rin
Americannoun
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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
"Feth, that'll mak him rin, if onything will," said the man, who knew of Davy's attachment to Meenie.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various
Eh, the lilt o' the bagpipes and the tuck o' the drum, but they rin i' the blood!
From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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