Reins
- n. pl. The inward impulses; the affections and passions; — so called because formerly supposed to have their seat in the part of the body where the kidneys are.
- n. pl. The kidneys; also, the region of the kidneys; the loins.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.