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Trouble; distress; teen. [Obs.] "Cruel winter's tine." Spenser.

A name applied to various skin diseases, but especially to ringworm. See Ringworm, and Sycosis.

Any species of Tinea, or of the family Tineidæ, which includes numerous small moths, many of which are injurious to woolen and fur goods and to cultivated plants. Also used adjectively.

Furnished with tines; as, a three-tined fork.

Same as Tinean.

An officer of the forest who had the care of vert and venison by night. [Obs.]

Brushwood and thorns for making and repairing hedges. [Obs. Eng.]

A resinous obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether. Watts.

ifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence. The abstinence from a present pleasure that offers itself is a pain, nay, oftentimes, a very great one. Locke.

Abstinence. [R.]

Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate. Beau. & Fl.

With abstinence.

An organic base, in the form of a white powder, obtained from Aconitum lycoctonum. Eng. Cyc.

An intensely poisonous alkaloid, extracted from aconite.

the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.

Pertaining to, or like, agate.

Omnipotence; infinite or boundless power; unlimited might. Jer. Taylor.

The poisonous principle of some fungi.

Resembling amethyst, especially in color; bluish violet.

Of or pertaining to the ducks; ducklike.