These are the meanings of the letters RFNEPIE when you unscramble them.
- Ferine (a.)
Wild; untamed; savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts.
- Ferine (n.)
A wild beast; a beast of prey.
- Refine (v. i.)
To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language.
- Refine (v. i.)
To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.
- Refine (v. i.)
To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
- Refine (v. t.)
To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish; as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings.
- Refine (v. t.)
To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar.
- Repine (n.)
Vexation; mortification.
- Repine (v. i.)
To continue pining; to feel inward discontent which preys on the spirits; to indulge in envy or complaint; to murmur.
- Repine (v. i.)
To fail; to wane.