Tind

From earlier tend, from Middle English tenden, teenden, from Old English tendan ("to kindle") (usually attested in compounds); related to Danish tænde, German zünden. More at tend.

Alternative forms

• teend, tine, teen

Full definition of tind

Verb

1. (obsolete) To ignite, kindle.
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.3:Her harty wondes so deepe into the mynd
  Of the yong Damzell sunke, that great desire
  Of warlike armes in her forthwith they tynd ....

From Middle English tind, tynd, from Old English tind ("tine, prong, tooth"), from Proto-Germanic *tinduz, *tindaz ("prong, pinnacle"), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)dont- ("tooth, projection"). Cognate with Dutch tinne ("battlement"), German Zinne ("pinnacle, battlement"), Danish tinde ("pinnacle, battlement"), Swedish tinne ("tooth of a rake"), Icelandic tindur ("spike, tooth of a rake or harrow, pinnacle, peak, battlement"). Related also to Dutch tand ("tooth, tine"), English tooth.

Alternative forms

• tynd

Noun

1. A prong or something projecting like a prong; an animal's horn; a branch or limb of a tree; a protruding arm.
2. (UK dialectal, Scotland) A branch of a deer's antler; the horn of a unicorn; a tooth of a harrow; a spike.

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