PINE, v.i.
1. To languish; to lose flesh or wear away under any distress of anxiety of mind; to grow lean; followed sometimes by away.
Ye shall not mourn nor weep, but ye shall pine away for your iniquities. Ezek 24.
2. To languish with desire; to waste away with longing for something; usually followed by for.
Unknowing that she pin'd for your return.
PINE, v.t. To wear out; to make to languish.
Where shivering cold and sickness pines the clime.
Beroe pined with pain.
1. To grieve for; to bemoan in silence.
Abashed the devil stood--
Virtue in her own shape how lovely, saw,
And pined his loss.
[In the transitive sense, this verb is now seldom used, and this use is improper, except by ellipsis.]
PINE, n. Woe; want; penury; misery.
[This is obsolete. See Pain.]
