Defn: One who impounds; a poundkeeper. [Obs.]
PINE
Pine, n. Etym: [AS. pin, L. poena penalty. See Pain.]
Defn: Woe; torment; pain. [Obs.] "Pyne of hell." Chaucer.
PINE Pine, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pined; p. pr. & vb. n. Pining.] Etym: [AS. pinan to torment, fr. pin torment. See 1st Pine, Pain, n. & v.]
1. To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict. [Obs.]
Chaucer. Shak.
That people that pyned him to death. Piers Plowman.
One is pined in prison, another tortured on the rack. Bp. Hall.
2. To grieve or mourn for. [R.] Milton.
PINE
Pine, v. i.
1. To suffer; to be afflicted. [Obs.]
2. To languish; to lose flesh or wear away, under any distress or anexiety of mind; to droop; — often used with away. "The roses wither and the lilies pine." Tickell.
3. To languish with desire; to waste away with longing for something; — usually followed by for. For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined. Shak.