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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pine  \Pine\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Pined};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Pining}.]  [AS.  p[=i]nan  to  torment,  fr  p[=i]n  torment.  See 
  1st  {Pine},  {Pain},  n.  &  v.] 
  1.  To  inflict  pain  upon  to  torment;  to  torture;  to  afflict. 
  [Obs.]  --Chaucer.  Shak. 
 
  That  people  that  pyned  him  to  death.  --Piers 
  Plowman. 
 
  One  is  pined  in  prison,  another  tortured  on  the 
  rack.  --Bp.  Hall. 
 
  2.  To  grieve  or  mourn  for  [R.]  --Milton. 




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