rugine

English

Etymology

French ruginer (“to scrape”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹuːˈʒiːn/, /ˈɹuːʒiːn/

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, surgery) To scrape or rasp (a bone etc.); to scale.
   • 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:

     if you do not rugine that away, the Callus will be flow in thrusting out; and if you do rugine it, the deeper you enter into it, the browner and softer the Bone will be.

References

“rugine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Eur Ing, Geurin, Guerin, rueing