Obs. Also 6 tyne. (Only in and after Spenser.) [By-form of TEEN sb.1 in various senses. Perh. from Norse: cf. Norw. dial. týne injury: cf. TINE v.2 2.] Affliction, trouble, sorrow.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., I. ix. 15. To seek her out with labor and long tyne. Ibid. (1591), Teares Muses, 3. Those piteous plaints and sorrowfull sad tine [rhyme nine].
1600. Tourneur, Trans. Met., To his Booke 13.
| For heau’nly mindes, the brightlier they do shine: | |
| The more the world doth seeke to work their tine. |
1610. Fletcher, Faithf. Sheph., I. iii. And far more heavy be thy grief and tine.
