ren

Definitions

1. A kidney.
2. One’s name, as part of the soul in ancient Egyptian mythology.
   Egyptian
3. Initialism of ringer equivalence number.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
4. Clipping of Renaissance.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, in-compounds, informal

Equivalents

Examples

“Having treated laſt of the expulſion of the inteſtinal fæces, we come⟳ next to conſider thoſe organs, which ſeparate and throw⟳ off another principal excrementitious matter⟳, to wit, urine. The firſt of which is the renes or kidneys.”

“We find⟳, however, that the detrita, consisting principally of effete hydrogen and carbon, brought into the circulation by the absorbents, are constantly making their escape⟳ from the system by way of the renes, skin, and lungs, in the forms of water, and carbonic-acid.”

“It would probably have⟳ been considered an important omission if I had not mentioned Water as a substance excreted freely by the renes or kidneys.”

“Renal. Belonging to the ren or kidney.”

“For the Ren did not belong⟳ to the man, but came out of the Celestial Waters to enter⟳ an infant in the hour of his birth and might not stir⟳ again until it was time to go back.”

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