extine (ekstin)

-ine2.] In bot., the grain or of a spore. Also exine. extinguish (eks-ting'gwish), v. t. [With suffix -ish1 (after abolish, banish, etc.), A light which the fierce winds have no power to ext in guish. Pre scott . 2. To destroy; put an end to; suppre : as, to extinguish an army; to extinguish desire or hope; to extinguish a claim or title. King Hardiknute, dying without I ue, as having never been married,. the Danish Line [was] clean ext in guished. Baker , Chronicles, p. 18. Thus this late mighty [Turkish] Empire, extinguisht in Egypt by the Mamelucks,... was for a time deprived of all principality. Sandys , Travailes, p. 35. Natural bodies po e the power of extinguishing , or, as it is called, absorbing the light that enters them. Tyndall, Light and Elect., p. 69. 3. To put under a cloud; obscure; eclipse; make unnoticed or unnoticeable: as, he was completely extinguished in this brilliant company. Bethink thee on her virtues that surmount: Mad, natural graces that extinguish art. Shak., 1 Hen. VI., v. 3. 4. In law, to put an end to. See extinguish ment, 2.