Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To rub; bruise; pound; break in pieces.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To rub; to bruise; to break in pieces.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, obsolete To
rub (usually with or between the hands);bruise ;crush ;pound ;break in pieces; rub out. - verb intransitive, obsolete To
crumble away.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Middle English gniden, from Old English gnīdan ("to rub, grind together, crumble"), from Proto-Germanic *gnīdanan (“to rub”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰneidʰ-, *gʰneid- (“to gnaw, chew, scratch, rub”). Cognate with Danish gnide ("to rub"), Swedish gnida ("to rub, scrape"), Icelandic gníða ("to rub").
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Examples
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« O Night! 'saidshe, « thou osnident and gnide Of secrets, each as darkness ought to hide;
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