rugine

English

Etymology

French ruginer (“to scrape”).

Noun

rugine (plural rugines)

  1. (surgery) An instrument for scraping the periosteum from bones; a raspatory.

Verb

rugine (third-person singular simple present rugines, present participle rugining, simple past and past participle rugined)

  1. (transitive) To scrape or rasp (a bone etc.); to scale.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rugine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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