Definitions
have a desire for something or someone who is not present
Word origin
From Middle English pyne, from Old English *pīne, from Proto-West Germanic *pīnā, from Latin pīnus, see there for more. Doublet of pinus. Possibly related to fat.
Used in a sentence
“The northern slopes were covered mainly in pine.”
“"[…] I bought a pine-apple at the same time, which I gave to Sambo. Let's have it for tiffin; very cool and nice this hot weather." Rebecca said she had never tasted a pine, and longed beyond everything to taste one.”
“Linda carried the oysters in one hand and the pineapple in the other. […] [S]he put the bottle of oysters and the pine on a little carved chair.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Needled cone tree”4 letters
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