roin

From Anglo-Norman runger, ultimately of imitative origin.

roin (third-person singular simple present roins, present participle roining, simple past and past participle roined)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To growl; to roar. [15th–17th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Yet did he murmure with rebellious sound, / And softly royne, when salvage choler gan redound.

From Anglo-Norman roigne, roin et al., of uncertain origin. Compare roynish.

roin (plural roins)

1. (obsolete) A scab; a scurf, or scurfy spot. [15th–16th c.]

• Iron, Orin, RINO, Rion, inro, inrō, iron, noir, nori

roin

1. first-person plural of roish

   before us

   • Heeyn yn clane twoaie jeh'n ellan roin. The whole north of the island lay before us.
   • Va'n lhong jeeragh roin. The ship was straight ahead of us.

• roinyn (emphatic)

roin (nominative plural roins)

1. (anatomy) kidney