different between rugine vs rugin

English

Etymology

French ruginer (“to scrape”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u???i?n/, /??u??i?n/

Noun

rugine (plural rugines)

1. (surgery) An instrument for scraping the periosteum from bones; a raspatory.

Verb

rugine (third-person singular simple present rugines, present participle rugining, simple past and past participle rugined)

1. (transitive, surgery) To scrape or rasp (a bone etc.); to scale.
   • 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgical Treatises

     if you do not rugine that away, the Callus will be flow in thrusting out; and if you do rugine it, the deeper you enter into it, the browner and softer the Bone will be.

References

rugine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Eur Ing, Guerin, rueing

English

Noun

rugin (plural rugins)

1. (obsolete) A nappy cloth.
   • 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgical Treatises

     The lips grew so painful, that she could not endure the wiping the ichor from it with a soft rugin with her own hand.

Related terms

• rugose

Anagrams

• Irgun, ruing, unrig, uring

Faroese

Noun

rugin

1. accusative singular definite of rugur