Foins vs Roins - What's the difference?
foins | roins |
(foin)
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(label) A thrust.
*1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), XII, lv:
*:They move their hands, steadfast their feet remain, / Nor blow nor foin they struck or thrust in vain.
(archaic) To thrust with a sword; to stab at.
* 1976', These ''Fastulfrs'' and ''Falsts'' could drink as well as they could '''foin or fight, and this has also been the case with me. — Robert Nye, ''Falstaff
* Spenser
* Dryden
(archaic) To prick; to sting.
The beech marten (Mustela foina ).
A kind of fur, black at the top on a whitish ground, taken from the ferret or weasel of the same name.
* Fuller
(roin)
(obsolete) To growl; to roar.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.9:
As verbs the difference between foins and roins
is that foins is third-person singular of foin while roins is third-person singular of roin.As a noun roins is
plural of lang=en.foins
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Verb
(head)foin
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) foene, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- He stroke, he soused, he foynd , he hewed, he lashed.
- They lash, they foin , they pass, they strive to bore / Their corselets, and the thinnest parts explore.
- (Huloet)
Etymology 2
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- He came to the stake in a fair black gown furred and faced with foins .
Anagrams
* ----roins
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Verb
(head)Noun
(head)roin
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) runger, ultimately of imitative origin.Verb
(en verb)- Yet did he murmure with rebellious sound, / And softly royne , when salvage choler gan redound.
