Roined vs Reined - What's the difference?
roined | reined |
(roin)
(obsolete) To growl; to roar.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.9:
(rein)
A strap or rope attached to the bridle or bit, used to control a horse, animal or young child.
(figurative) An instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing.
* Milton
To direct or stop a horse by using reins.
* Chapman
To restrain; to control; to check.
* Shakespeare
A kidney.
*, II.12:
*:a man subject to these like imaginations.
*1611 , (King James Bible), :
*:He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins .
The inward impulses; the affections and passions, formerly supposed to be located in the area of the kidneys.
*Bible, Proverbs xxiii. 16
*:My reins rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
*Bible, Revelations ii. 23
*:I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts.
As verbs the difference between roined and reined
is that roined is (roin) while reined is (rein).roined
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Verb
(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.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) ruinne, roin et al., of uncertain origin. Compare roynish.reined
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*rein
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Etymology 1
(etyl) reyne, from (etyl) resne (Modern French .Noun
(en noun)- Let their eyes rove without rein .
Verb
(en verb)- He mounts and reins his horse.
- Being once chafed, he cannot / Be reined again to temperance.