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Definition of Proin
1. v. t. To lop; to trim; to prune; to adorn.
2. v. i. To employed in pruning.
Definition of Proin
1. to prune [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: prune
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proin
Literary usage of Proin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1866)
"They often in the end make their appearance externally in the iliac fossa of the
proin, and it is not always easy to distinguish them from those of the ..."
2. The London Medical Gazette (1830)
"... had taken place from the ham to the foot, and great tenderness was experienced
along the inner surface of the thigh to the proin. " 23d. ..."
3. The Commentaries of Gaius by Gaius, John Thomas Abdy (1870)
"... proin^ valere putant, ac si ea condicio adiecta non esset: diverse sc/wlae
auctores non minus legatum inutile enquire into the rules of individual ..."
4. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1867)
"with a spondee proin tu, but the MSS. read only proin, which we should pronounce in
... In saying so, I do not forget that Lucretius, at least, has proin as ..."