bine

• IPA^(key): /baɪn/

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• Rhymes: -aɪn

From bind (noun).

bine (plural bines)

1. (botany) A climbing plant which climbs by its shoots growing in a helix around a support (distinct from a vine, which climbs using tendrils or suckers).
   • 1900, Thomas Hardy, The Darkling Thrush:

     The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
     Like strings of broken lyres,
     And all mankind that haunted nigh
     Had sought their household fires.

From Wills's Woodbine (cigarettes).

bine (plural bines)

1. (UK, slang) A cigarette.

   Synonym: fag

• Beni, be-in, bein', Bien, bein

bine

1. four

• Roger Blench, The Tivoid languages: Classification and comparative wordlist (2011)

From Old Irish bine (“crime; wrong-doing; fault; harm, damage, injury”).

bine m (genitive singular bine)

1. (literary) harm, injury

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bine”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bine”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /ˈbi.ne/
• Rhymes: -ine
• Hyphenation: bì‧ne

bine f

1. feminine plural of bino

• beni

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbiː.ne/, [ˈbiːnɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.ne/, [ˈbiːne]

bīne

1. vocative masculine singular of bīnus

From Old Frisian binda, from Proto-West Germanic *bindan, from Proto-Germanic *bindaną.

bine

1. (Mooring) to bind

• ferbine

bine (plural bineg)

1. partridge

bine (plural binewag)

1. partridge, ruffed grouse, spruce grouse

Inherited from Latin bene.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbi.ne/

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bine

1. well

• binevenit

bine m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. handsome

bine n (uncountable)

1. good
2. wellbeing

   Synonym: bunăstare

• bun

bine

1. inflection of binar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From Old Frisian binda, from Proto-West Germanic *bindan, from Proto-Germanic *bindaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbinə/

bine

1. to bind

• bynwurd

• “bine (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011