rugine

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/ɹuːˈʒiːn//ˈɹuːʒiːn/

noun

An instrument for scraping the periosteum from bones; a raspatory.

OriginFrench ruginer →
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Meanings

nounrugine (plural rugines)

plural rugines

  1. medicineAn instrument for scraping the periosteum from bones; a raspatory.
verbrugine (third-person singular simple present rugines, present participle rugining, simple past and past participle rugined)

present singular third person rugines · participle present rugining · participle past rugined · past rugined

  1. transitivemedicineTo scrape or rasp (a bone etc.); to scale.

    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.

    1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Frenchruginer“to scrape”
  2. Englishrugine

French ruginer (“to scrape”).

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rugine,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rugine.

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