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ryne

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
ryne, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§357; §386; §562;
A course, run, running, both in the sense of motion and in that of the path in which motion takes place.
of a ship
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  • Ánes ceóles ryne on London

    free entrance of one ship into the port of London

    (cf. ego indico me dedisse unius navis incessum in portu
      Lundoniae, 220, 18-22), Cod. Dip. B. i. 221, 21.
of other things, of the heavenly bodies,
an orbit
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  • Nǽron nó swá gewíslíce neswá endebyrdlíce hiora (the various members of the created world) stede and hiora ryne funden on hiora stówum and on hiora tídum gif án unáwendendlíc God nǽre

    non tam certus naturae ordo procederet, nec tam dispositos motus, locis, temporibus explicaret, nisi unus esset qui has mutationum varietates manens ipse disponeret,

      Bt. 35, 2; Fox 158, 3.

  • Roder firmamentum, ryne cursus, middaneard

    mundus,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 41, 57-59.

  • Ðære sunnan ryne is swíðe rúm, and ðæs mónan ryne is swíðe nearo,

      Lchdm. iii. 248, 7-8.

  • Siððan wæs rodor árǽred and ryne tungla gefæstnad,

      Exon. Th. 272, 13; Jul. 198.

  • Ryne

    curriculo, cursu,

      Hpt. Gl. 457, 18.

  • Ealle gesceafta symle sculon ðone ilcan ryne eft gecyrran,

      Met. 11, 37.

  • Ða mǽran tungl áwðer óðres rene á ne gehríneþ,

      29, 10.

  • Tunglu ða ðe ryne healdaþ, Cd, Th. 239, 13; Dan. 369. II a. metaph.

    course, uninterrupted progress

    (cf. that the word of the Lord may have free course, 2
      Thes. 3, 1) :-- Se ðe
    reorda gehwæs ryne gemiclaþ, ðara ðe noman Scyppendes þurh horscne hád hergan willaþ, Exon. Th. 4, 4; Cri. 47.
of fluids,
a course, water-course, a flow, flux of blood
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  • Ðá ætstód ðæs b1ódes ryne

    fluxus sanguinis,

      Lk. Skt. 8, 44 : Mk. Skt. 5, 29.

  • Seó eá ætstent on hire ryne,

      Jos. 3, 13.

  • Hí námon twelf stánas on ðæs streámes ryne

    de medio Iordanis alveo,

      4, 8.

  • Plantud néh ryne (rynum, Ps. Th.) wetæra

    secus decursus aquarum,

      Ps. Spl. 1, 3.

  • Wæter ða nú under roderum heora ryne healdaþ,

      Cd. Th. 10, 20; Gen. 159.

  • Wið rynas wætera,

      Ps. Lamb. 1, 3.
of time,
course, cycle, lustre
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  • Geár annus, tíd tempus, ryne

    cursus,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 52, 38-40.

  • Ryne cyclus, rynum

    cyclis,

    ii.
      20, 64-65 : 137, 73.

  • Ðá se ryne ðissa geára gefylled wæs

    quo completo annorum curriculo,

      Bd. 3, 9; S. 533, 9.

  • Ryne

    lustro,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 50, 42.
course of life
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  • Honorius æfter ðon ðe hé ða gemǽro his rynes gefyllde of ðissum leóhte leórde (

    postquam metas sui cursus implevit

    ),
      Bd. 3, 20; S. 550, 25.
  • Gif ðú hine lufast on ðínes lífes ryne, ðe ðé is ungewiss, Basil admn. 8; Norm. 52, 8.
currus is translated by ryne in Ps. Spl. T. 67, 18
and Cant. Moys,
    Thw. 29, 10.
Etymology
[Bi his blodi rune þet ron inne monie studen, O. E. Homl. i. 207, 10. Þe stronge rune of þat blodi stream, Marh. 7, 12. Þer is mest neod hold hwon þe tunge is o rune, A. R. 74, 21. Goth. runs : O. Frs. blód-rene : O. H. Ger. run meatus : cf. Icel. runi a flux, stream.]
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v. blód-, eft-, forþ-, gegn-, on-, riht-, streám-, up-, út-ryne.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “ryne.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/26075.

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