Forms: α. 4–5 vryne, 4–6 uryne, 4–7 vrine, 4– urine; 4–5 ureyne, 5 vreyne. β. 4–6 vryn, 4–7 vrin, 7 urin; 5 uren. [a. OF. urine (12th c.), ad. L. ūrīna (whence It., Pr., Pg. urina, Pg. ourina, It. and Sp. orina, OF. orine, Du. urine, G., Da., Sw. urin), related to Gr. οὖρον.]
1. The excrementitious fluid secreted from the blood by the kidneys in man and the higher animals, stored in the bladder, and voided at intervals through the urethra; = WATER sb. 18.
Also freq. in Path. with qualifying terms, denoting morbid condition.
α. c. 1325. in Pol. Songs (Camden), 333. He wole wagge his urine in a vessel of glaz.
13[?]. Seuyn Sages (W.), 1571. In vrine he segh he mighte libbe.
c. 1400. Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 60. Vreyne of a ȝong man wiþ nitre.
14[?]. Lydg., Daunce of Machabree, 417. Maister of Phisike, which on your vryne So looke and gase and stare agaynst the sunne.
1484. Caxton, Fables of Alfonce, i. Whan the medecyns had sene … his vryne also, they sayd that he had no bodyly sekeness.
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas., XVI. (Percy Soc.), 67. A physycyen, truely, can lyttel descerne Ony maner sekenes wythout syght of uryne.
1584. B. R., trans. Herodotus, I. 34. Mandâne: whom hyr father on a night dreamed to haue let her vryne in … great aboundance.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 217. Their urine (after it is made) congealeth into a certain ycie substance.
1662. H. Newcome, Diary (Chetham Soc.), 74. My urine gave mee some alarm, & so ye Dr seeinge it [etc.].
1732. Arbuthnot, Rules of Diet, in Aliments, etc., I. 248. Cucumbers are useful in bloody Urine.
1787. Winter, Syst. Husb., 58. Human and animal urine are composed of water, oil, and salt.
1803. Fessenden, Poet. Petition, 10. For bottled urine has, no doubt, In public mails, been frank’d about.
1819. J. G. Children, Chem. Anal., 303. The sugar of diabetic urine.
1873. Ralfe, Phys. Chem., 188. Healthy human urine is a clear, transparent, amber-coloured fluid.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., II. 1075. If chylous urine is passed into a urine glass.
1897. [see SMOKY a. 6].
β. c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 9011. He tasted his pous, saw his vryn.
13[?]. Coer de L., 3030. Rychard bad his men seche For some wys clerk … For to loke hys uryn.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 3826. Sum of his awen vryn & sum on Iren lickid.
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., I. 950. Oil dresses and oxe uren.
1548. Vicary, Anat. (1888), 76. The more that the bladder is filled with vrin.
1663. Boyle, Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos., II. App. 324. Vrin is a Body, which, as homely and despis’d as ’tis wont to be, may [etc.].
1691. Ray, N. Co. Words (ed. 2), 52. Netting, Chamber-Lee, Urin.
b. With an, etc., and pl.
1483. Cath. Angl., 404/2. An Vryn, vrina...: vbi pissynge.
1525. R. Bankes, Seynge of Vryns (title-p.), Here begynneth the seynge of vryns,… with medycynes annexed to euery vryne.
1541. Elyot, Castel of Helth, IV. ix. 82. The most common iudgement in sicknes is by vrines.
1625. Hart, Anal. Ur., I. iv. 39. The vrines of women with child alter almost euery day.
1656. R. Short, Drinking Water, 95. They … that will not vought-safe to look upon an urine.
1707. Floyer, Physic, Pulse-Watch, 312. Black Vomits, Spits, or black Urines or Stools.
1728. Chambers, Cycl., s.v., The Author establishes two kinds of Urines.
1840. Cat. MSS. Brit. Mus., I. 10/1. Receipts…; with rules for the discerning of urines.
1887. A. M. Brown, Anim. Alkaloids, 64. The existence of kreatinine in urines.
† 2. [Partly f. the vb.] The action of passing urine; urination. Obs. rare.
1561. in H. B. Wilson, Hist. Merchant-Taylors’ Sch. (1814), 17. Unto their uryne the schollers shall goe to the places appointed them.
1638. Rawley, trans. Bacon’s Life & Death (1650), 54. The quantity of … drink, which a man … receiveth into his body, is … much more than he voideth again … by urine, or by sweating.
1662. R. Mathew, Unl. Alch., 43. It drank with White-wine … oft-times at urine sends forth like jags of cloath. Ibid., 57. Losing his blood at Urine. Ibid. [He] meets with my Pills … and … quite stopt his Urine of Blood.
3. attrib. and Comb., as urine analysis, † -bladder, -cistern, drainage, expulsor, -gutter, -monging, pigment, -provoking, -soaked, etc.; urine battery (see quot.); urine-cart, one for conveying urine; urine fever (see quot.); urine-glass, = URINAL sb. 1; † urine-lake, poet. the contents of the bladder; † urine leader, † urine-pipe, a ureter; † urine probe (see quot. and cf. URINARY a. 3 a); † urine-river, poet. urine passing through a ureter; urine-salts, salts of urine; urine sugar, urinary sugar.
1884. Thomson, Tumours of Bladder, 6. The whole subject of *urine analysis.
1884. Knight, Dict. Mech., Suppl. 916/2. *Urine battery, (Electricity). The plates are immersed in a trough through which urine flows.
1738. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Bladder, From whence it takes various denominations, as *urine-bladder, gall bladder, &c.
1837. Flemish Husb., 92, in Husb. (L.U.K.), III. The carrots,… by the help of the *urine-cart, soon swell to a good size. Ibid., 90. His *urine-cistern is twenty feet square, and seven feet deep.
1888. R. Harrison, in Lancet, 14 Jan., 57/2. Cases where it was impossible to obtain perfect *urine drainage.
1597. A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 48 b/2. The *urine expulsors, or urine-provoking remedyes.
1888. R. Harrison, in Lancet, 14 Jan., 57/2. An aguish form of pyrexia, which I shall speak of henceforth as *urine fever. Ibid. (1880), 15 May, 771/1. *Urine-glasses with glass or vulcanite stop-cocks at the bottom to draw off the sediment have been made.
1844. H. Stephens, Bk. Farm, II. 443. Have every particle of filth removed daily from … the *urine-gutters.
1633. P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., II. xxv. The *Urine-lake … By little swells, and fills his stretching sides.
1615. H. Crooke, Body of Man (1631), 149. The Vreters or *vrine leaders or vessels of Vrine.
1623. Hart, Arraignm. Ur. (title-p.), The manifold errors and abuses of ignorant *Vrine-monging Empirickes. Ibid. (1625), Anat. Ur., I. ii. 15. The ordinarie sort of vrine-monging Physitians.
1860. P. Munk, in New Syd. Soc. Year-bk., 108. On *Urine Pigment.
1863. W. O. Markham, trans. Anal. Urine, etc. 371. The quantity of urine pigment is considerably increased in all acute febrile diseases.
1594. T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad., II. 372. Two other passages, called vreteres or *vrine pipes.
1625. Hart, Anat. Ur., II. ix. 107. This suppression is … procured by the obstruction … of the Kidneys and Vrine-pipes.
1688. Holme, Armoury, III. 429/2. The Catheter, or *Urine probe,… is a long pipe with some few holes at one end.
1597. A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 48 b/2. *Vrine-prouoking remedyes.
1633. P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., II. xxiv. Into a lake the *Urine-river falls.
1846. G. E. Day, trans. Simon’s Anim. Chem., II. 141. If the *urine-salts froth very much upon being treated with an acid.
1876. Roberts, Urinary Dis., 485. Marked symptoms of deranged *urine-secretion.
1908. Aninal Managem., 77. A dirty, damp, *urine-soaked mass.
1876. Clin. Soc. Trans., IX. 37. The *urine sugar still continuing to be very copious.
1837. Flemish Husb., 83, in Husb. (L.U.K.), III. The whole being swept into the *urine-tank below.
1873. T. H. Green, Introd. Pathol. (ed. 2), 319. The interstitial growth … produces…, in the kidney, compression of the *urine-tubes.
1839. Ure, Dict. Arts, 675. The *urine vat is prepared by digestion of the ground indigo in warmed stale urine.
b. Urine † -caster, -doctor, -inspector, † -monger, † -prophet, one who diagnoses diseases by inspection of the urine.
1625. Hart, Anat. Ur., I. iv. 38. Who told these *vrine-mongers that the wombe daunced attendance on the bladder?
1654. R. Whitlock, Ζωοτομια, 82. Admirers of Urine-prophets. [Cf. PISS-PROPHET.]
1763. Brit. Mag., IV. 116. Tenant, an urine caster.
1815. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., iv. (1816), I. 141. The prescription of a famous urine-doctor.
1843. Penny Cycl., XXVI. 50/1. In former times, the Uromantes, or Urine-casters, pretended [etc.].
1863. W. O. Markham, trans. Anal. Urine, etc., 281. Dozens of specimens of urine were sent daily … to a female urine-inspector.
