Brewer's: Aroint thee

Get ye gone, be off. In Cheshire they say, rynt ye, witch ; and milk-maids say to their cows when they have done milking them, rynt ye. (or 'roint) my beauties; but it is doubtful whether this is connected with the word in question.

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