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Win, Wyn, ppl. adj. Also: winn(e, won(e, wonne, woune, wynnynge, wonnyn(g, wounded. [e.m.E. wonne (1553).]

1. Of a victory: Won decisively, won outright. c1420 Wynt. iv 1710.
Flamyne … Eftyr mony juperdyis And syndry wonnyn [C. wynnynge, W. wonnyng] vyctoryis Grawntyt pes and trwys … Tyll Phylippe

2. Of property, lands, etc.: Seized in battle, taken forcibly. Also fig. 1557 Orkney & Shetl. Rec. I 263.
Our awine leil win conquest gudisfig. 1638 Baillie I 70.
The offers they are to make are secreit … the bishops are confident they are so reasonable, as will give content to many, and so be able to make a division among the subscryvers, which to them is a win field

3. In combination with an adverbial: Acquired as a result of effort, gambling, etc.; earned. Also proverb. c1460 Consail Vys Man 370.
With crabyt men hald na cumpany, … Na nan that lewys one ille-wonne gud a1500 Prestis of Peblis 1073.
Than euil won gude to gar men giue agane Thar may be na war vse now in ane c1500-c1512 Dunb. (STS) xvii 19.
Be thair successioun ȝe may see That ill-won geir riches not the kin 1569 Reg. Privy C. II 70.
Thay have retired … to pas to the seyis and thair … to … use piracie upoun the trew marchandis … and to spoyle thame of thair leill win geir 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 269.
Euerie man … that culd get any thing pertenyng to any kirkmen, thocht the same as wele won geir 1622-6 Bisset II 214/5.
All schippis and utheris merchandice perisched and win of floit … and generallie of all that past to the ground of the sea, and that may be ingyne … drawn out salbe devyded c1650 Spalding II 268.
The estaitis thocht this geir weill wynproverb. a1568 Bann. MS 135a/15.
Bettir is gud name Nor evill win geir a1570-86 Maitl. F. 160/18.
Geir win at the dys richis never the air a1598 Ferg. Prov. MS No. 903.
It is ane weil win pennie is haden from the bellie

4. Of a crop or land bearing a crop: Harvested, having undergone the processes of cutting and drying prior to storage. 1550 Lanark Sheriff Ct. MS 38b.
The profett of ilk dawork in wone hay xiiii s. 1565 Reg. Privy C. I 402.
The cornis … throw evill weddir in tyme of harvist ar nocht sa weill win as neid wer … thair sall nocht be sic … aboundance thairof as hes bene the yeris preceding 1597 Misc. Spald. C. I 114.
Be thi witchecraft … he gatt na guid nor proffeitt of his haill crop, but rottit and consumit away; the rest of the toun being weill win 1636 Edinb. Test. LVIII 35a.
Sex firlottis peiss … new collectit and win 1640 Sutherland Bk. II 171.
The cornes hes not been well winn in Scotland this year 1657 Balfour Ann. III 433.
After Michellmisse, ther was grate raines … the snowes wer verey grate, ȝet the cornnes wer weill woune 1676 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Processes No. 219.
Haveing ane ruk of win hay upon the watirsyd

5. Of a resource: Mined, quarried. b. specif. Of peat: Cut and dried. Cf. 4 above. a1500 Henr. Fab. 1098.
As the mynour in his minorall Fair gold with fyre may fra the leid weill wyn [H. win] 1609 Glasgow B. Rec. I 307.
The commoun quarrell besyde Sanct Mungois trie aboundis sa in wattir that the tirrit quarrell and craig thairof and the win werk lyand in the same can nocht be wrocht 1636 Misc. Spald. C. V 226.
The seller of the firr forsaid sall haw from his nichtbour four shillings for ilk laid of win firrb. 1572 Black Bk. Taymouth 414.
Thre scoir laidis of win and led dry peittis a1651 Calderwood VII 514.
There was … never greatter feare of famine, nor scarsitie of seede to sow the ground. Neither was the fewell well winne 1689 Rec. Old Aberd. I 149.
That ilk heretor of tenements … of six elnes in breadth cast no more peites bot onlie threttie loads of win peites

6. Dried or prepared in some other way. 1584 Sempill in Sat. P. xlv 336.
Scho tuike some part of white wyne dreggis, Wounded rayne, and blak hen eggis, And maid him droggis that did him gude