? Obs. [f. URINE sb.1, or ad. F. uriner (16th c.), ad. med.L. ūrīnāre (whence It. urinare, orinare, Pr. and Pg. urinar, Pg. ourinar, Sp. orinar, OF. oriner) to URINATE.]
1. intr. To pass or make water; to urinate.
In freq. use from c. 1645 to c. 1700.
1605. B. Jonson, Volpone, IV. i. By the way, I cheapend sprats: and at St Markes, I vrin’d.
1629. Massinger, Roman Actor, II. i. This hopefull youth Vrines vpon your monument.
1638. Ford, Fancies, I. ii. I will … urine in thy bason.
1705. Phil. Trans., XXV. 2111. I ask’d him … whether he found any ease when he did either Vomit, Sweat or Urined.
1757. Gentl. Mag., Aug., 364/2. [He] felt for the first time a difficulty in urining.
1796. ‘A Pasquin,’ New Brighton Guide, 18. As to grinning when jobbernowls urin’d upon me, ’Tis false.
1817. Jas. Mill, Brit. India, I. II. iv. 154. When a man spits on another, when he urines on him.
1828. Fleming, Hist. Brit. Anim., 11. [The dog] urines sidewise, lifting his hind leg.
2. trans. To cause to pass out, as urine.
1662. R. Mathew, Unl. Alch., 44. This man … did drink without measure, but could not urine it out.
Hence Urining vbl. sb. Also attrib.
1668. Wilkins, Real Char., 241. Urining,… make water. Ibid., Alph. Dict., Ureter,… Urining Vein.
