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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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943 words match “TINE”

BUNTING; BUNTINE n.
A thin woolen stuff, used chiefly for flags, colors, and ships' signals.
BYZANT; BYZANTINE n.
A gold coin, so called from being coined at Byzantium. See Bezant.
BYZANTINE a. 2 definitions
times, applied to an inhabitant of the modern city of Constantinople. [ Written also Bizantine.] Byzantine church, the Eastern or Greek church, as distinguished from the Western or Roman or Latin church.See under Greek. -- Byzantine empire, the Eastern Roman or Greek empire from A.D. 364 or A.D. 395 to the capture of…
CANTINE n.
See Canteen.
CELESTINE; CELESTINIAN n.
A monk of the austere branch of the Franciscan Order founded by Celestine V. in the 13th centry.
CELESTINE; CELESTITE n.
Native strontium sulphate, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color. It occurs crystallized, also in compact massive and fibrous forms.
CENTINEL n.
Sentinel. [Obs.] Sackville.
CERATINE a.
Sophistical.
CESPITINE n.
An oil obtained by distillation of peat, and containing various members of the pyridine series.
CHATTINESS n.
The quality of being chatty, or of talking easily and pleasantly.
CHRYSELEPHANTINE a.
Composed of, or adorned with, gold and ivory.
CITINER n.
One who is born or bred in a city; a citizen. [Obs.] Champan.
CLANDESTINE a.
otice, usually for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand; as, a clandestine marriage. Locke.
CLEMENTINE a.
Of or pertaining to Clement, esp. to St.Clement of Rome and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V. and his compilations of canon law.
COBALTINE; COBALTITE n.
A mineral of a nearly silver-white color, composed of arsenic, sulphur, and cobalt.
COLBERTINE n.
A kind of lace. [Obs.] Pinners edged with colbertine. Swift. Difference rose between Mechlin, the queen of lace, and colbertine. Young.
CONTINENCE; CONTINENCY n. 3 definitions
lf-restraint; self-command. He knew what to say; he knew also, when to leave off, -- a continence which is practiced by few writers. Dryden.
CONTINENT a. 6 definitions
ing restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate. Have a continent forbearance till the speed of his rage goes slower. Shak.
CONTINENTAL a. 4 definitions
Of or pertaining to a continent.
CONTINENTAL DRIVE n.
A transmission arrangement in which the longitudinal crank shaft drives the rear wheels through a clutch, change-speed gear, countershaft, and two parallel side chains, in order.
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