Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb obsolete To feign.
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- verb Obsolete form of
feign .
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Examples
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For sale on eBay; it used to dispense das feine pfefferminz und zo weiter.
Boing Boing: October 2, 2005 - October 8, 2005 Archives 2005
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When Mike is in council you can still see him shaking like a coke feine.
City Hall: Cocaine, International Bribes, Masturbation and Monkeys 2006
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Also counterfeit messengers, because they feine themselues to be messengers, when as indeed they are none at all, they punish with death.
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But what be those vanities? namely, they feine certaine ghosts answering them, that they are going to mount Hecla; as the same Cardane saith.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Also counterfeit messengers, because they feine themselues to be messengers, when as indeed they are none at all, they punish with death.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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But what be those vanities? namely, they feine certaine ghosts answering them, that they are going to mount Hecla; as the same Cardane saith.
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* Fasten und leiblich sich bereiten ist wohl eine feine aeusserliche
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Fasten und leiblich sich bereiten ist wohl eine feine aeusserliche
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But Russia was soon to be changed; the ice of the Neva was softening under the sun of civilisation; the new ideas, 'wie eine feine Violine,' were audible among the big empty drum notes of Imperial diplomacy; and he looked to see a great revival, though with a somewhat indistinct and childish hope.
Essays of Travel Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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-- If it was only meant that they have no large nets for fishing, like the feine, as the
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789) Arthur Phillip 1776
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