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
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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
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
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
"O where will I get a little boy,25 That will win hose and shoon, To rin sae fast to Darlinton, And bid fair Eleanor come?"
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
And wi' that I began the ditty; but, as it has never been in prent, I had better rin owre it, that you may be able to judge o' its fitness for accomplishing my end.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various
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