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Savin vs Sain - What's the difference?

savin | sain |

As a noun savin

is the evergreen shrub , endemic to europe, which yields a medicinal oil.

As a verb sain is

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savin

English

(wikipedia savin) (Juniperus sabina) (Juniperus virginiana)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The evergreen shrub , endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil.
  • The poisonous dried tips of this plant, with anthelmintic properties, used as a drug.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
    • th'aged Nurse her calling to her bowre, / Had gathered Rew, and Sauine , and the flowre / Of Camphara, and Calamint, and Dill, / All which she in a earthen Pot did poure [...].
  • The eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana .

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    sain

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To make the sign of the cross on or over something or someone.
  • To make the sign of the cross.
  • (archaic) To bless, to keep from evil influence.
    • 1983 , Robert Nye, The Facts of Life :
    The child was sained then. Fir candles were lighted and whirled round the bed in which mother and infant lay.

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