Obs. exc. dial. Forms: see below. [OE. týnan = OFris. tîna, OLG., MLG., LG. tûnen, EFris. tûnen, tünen, MDu. tûnen, Du. tuinen, OHG. zûnen (MHG. ziunen, G. zäunen):—OTeut. *tûn-jan, f. *tûne- enclosure: see TOWN. From OE. týn-an, ME. had three dialect types, α. southern, tün-, tuin-; β. midl. and north. tyn-, tin-, tine; γ. Kentish tēn-, teen-.]
A. Illustration of Forms.
α. Present. 1 týnan, 3 tunen (ü), 5 tuyne, tuynde. Pa. t. 1 týnde, 3 tunde. Pa. pple. 1 ʓetýned, 4–5 ytund.
688–95. Laws of Ine, c. 42. Gif … hæbben sume ʓetyned hiora dæl, sume næbben.
a. 900. trans. Bæda’s Hist., IV. iii. (1890), 268. Þonne tynde he his bec.
c. 950. Lindisf. Gosp., Matt xxiii. 13. ʓie tyndon ric heofna.
a. 1000. in Anglia, IX. 261. Me mæiʓ … on sumera … tynan.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 43. Ne þat þe deuel me swelȝe, ne þat þe pit tune ouer me his muð. Ibid., 181. Hie tuneð to hire fif ȝaten, and penneð wel faste.
c. 1205. Lay., 15320. Þa ȝæten heo tunden uaste.
c. 1400. Trevisa’s Higden (Rolls), VI. 229. Þe ȝates … were i-schette [MSS. β. tynde, γ. ytund].
a. 1450. Myrc, Par. Priest, 63. Tuynde þyn ye þat thow ne se The cursede worldes vanyte.
β. Present. 3 tinen, 4–5 tynen, tynde, 5 tyn-yn, 5–6, 9 dial. tyne, 7–9 dial. tine. Pa. t. 4 tyned, 5 tynd. Pa. pple. 3 tined, 5 tynde, tynyd, tyndyd, 9 tined.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 43. Þo pit tineð his muð ouer þe man, þe lið on fule synnen. Ibid., 101. Þe ȝiate of paradis, þe þurh Eue gilte wið hem was er tined.
1382. Tyndynge [see B. 1].
c. 1400. Tynde [see α].
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 2193. Þen tened þe Thebees folke & tynd to þe ȝatis.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 494/1. Tynyn, or make a tynynge, sepio.
c. 1460. Pol. Rel. & L. Poems, 167. Aȝen þee wole y my ȝatis tyne.
1585. Jas. I., Ess. Poesie (Arb.), 56. And efter that mada Argus for to tyne … all his windois.
1674. Ray, N. C. Words, To Tine, to shut, fence. Tine the door; shut the door.
1825. Brockett, N. C. Words, Tine, to shut, to inclose.
1874. Tined [see B. 1].
γ. Present. 4 tende, 6 tene, 7 teene, 7–9 dial. teen. Pa. t. 4–5 tende. Pa. pple. 4 i-tend, 5 yteynd, 7 dial. teened.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), IV. 443. Ȝif eny dore were i-tend [γ. ytund]. Ibid., 453. To tende [see B. 1].
c. 1420. Chron. Vilod., 3725. Bot þe durus of þat chapelle weron þo y-teynde.
1626. in Archæol. Cant. (1902), XXV. 40. Peter Denham hath lately teened and fenced up a common foot-way.
1674. Ray, N. C. Words, 49. To enclose, fence, hedge, or teen.
c. 1700. Kennett, MS. Lansd. 1033, lf. 389. To Teen (Lanc. to Tine), to hedge or to enclose a field, in Kent.
1887. Kentish Gloss., Teener, Tener, a man who teens or keeps in order a raddle-fence.
B. Signification.
1. trans. To close, shut (a door, gate, or window; a house, one’s mouth, eyes, etc.). Also with to adv. (cf. SHUT to), and absol.
a. 900. [see A. α].
c. 950. Lindisf. Gosp., Luke xiii. 25. & tyneð þæt duro.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 62. An ancre nule nout tunen hire eiðurles aȝein deað of helle & of soule.
1382. Wyclif, Gen. xix. 6. Loth gon oute to hem … and tyndynge to the dore, seith.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), IV. 453. Þe Est ȝate of þe temple … was so hevy of sound bras þat twenty men were besy i-now for to tende [MSS. α. tynde, β. tyne, γ. tuynde] it.
a. 1450. Myrc, Par. Priest, 490. To tuynen and open at heyre byddynge.
1523. Fitzherb., Husb., § 141. Yf ony gate … go not lyghtly to open and tyne.
1561. Child-Marriages, 114. That she did se hym tyne the windowes, and put to the dore with his fote.
1674. [see A. β].
1874. T. Hardy, Far fr. Madding Crowd, xv. Cainy and I haven’t tined our eyes to-night.
2. a. To enclose or shut (a thing) up in something.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., B. 498. Tyl þay had tyþyng fro þe tolke þat tyned hem þer-inne [i.e., in the ark].
1888. A. S. Wilson, Lyric Hopeless Love, XXVIII. 92. Come, choral voices,… And in my soul the sweetness tine Which harps of Eden wear.
b. To enclose with a hedge or fence; to fence, to hedge in.
688–95. [see A. α].
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 494/1. Tynyd, or hedgydde (P. tyndyd), septus.
1570–6. Lambarde, Peramb. Kent (1826), 376. Their [the Saxons’] woorde (Tynan) to tyne, or inclose with a hedge.
1598. Stow, Surv., xlix. (1603), 547. To inclose or tyne.
1604. in Eng. Gilds (1870), 437. That they leaue to tine and keep so that his neighbor be harmelesse by the cattel.
1864. W. Barnes, in Macm. Mag., Oct., 477. An’ there wer my orcha’d a-tined Wi’ a hedge on a steep-zided bank.
1892. Brooke, Hist. E. Eng. Lit., ix. 202. The place was tyned or girded with a fence of rods.
c. To make or repair (a hedge or fence).
1522. MS. Acc. St. John’s Hosp., Canterb. Paied for tenying of a hedge. Ibid. (1630). For two bundles of bushes to teene our orchard hedges viij d.
1887. Kentish Gloss, Teen, to make a hedge with raddles [= green sticks].
† 3. fig. To confine, restrain to something. Obs.
c. 1430. Hymns Virg., 25. To þat loue y schal me so faste tyne, Þat y in herte it euermore holde.
