Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The kidney: little used, though the derivatives, as renal, adrenal, are in constant employ.
  • To plunder: only in the phrase to rape and ren (which see, under rape).
  • A Middle English form of run.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • verb obsolete See renne.
  • noun obsolete A run.

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  • noun anatomy A kidney.
  • noun One's secret name, as part of the soul in ancient Egyptian mythology.

Etymologies

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From Latin ren.

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From Egyptian 𓂋𓈖 (rn).

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