Agrin
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 a protein involved in the formation of neuromuscular junctions during embryonic development
- 1 Grinning; having happiness or satisfaction apparent on one's face. not-comparable, predicative
"Yea, let her see me fall! and with that I drave Among the thickest and bore down a Prince, And Cyril, one. Yea, let me make my dream All that I would. But that large-moulded man, His visage all agrin as at a wake, Made at me through the press, and, staggering back With stroke on stroke the horse and horseman, came As comes a pillar of electric cloud, Flaying the roofs and sucking up the drains, And shadowing down the champaign till it strikes"
Example
More examples"Yea, let her see me fall! and with that I drave Among the thickest and bore down a Prince, And Cyril, one. Yea, let me make my dream All that I would. But that large-moulded man, His visage all agrin as at a wake, Made at me through the press, and, staggering back With stroke on stroke the horse and horseman, came As comes a pillar of electric cloud, Flaying the roofs and sucking up the drains, And shadowing down the champaign till it strikes"
Etymology
From a- + grin.
From AGRN (“the name of the associated gene”) + -in.
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