A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1498, 1561
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Beune, adv. and prep. Also: bewne, beone. [Reduced from OE. beufan; cf. Abone, Abune, and ME. boven, buven.] Above.a1400 Legends of the Saints xx. 286.
For God has callit ws hym til, til bruk the blyse be-one 1498 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 426.
For ilkan barell bevne the Braidgutter tua pennies; … for ane byrne beneth i half penny 1561 Inverness B. Rec. I. 53.
Ane [rude] of land lyand … in the west syd of the get bewne the port
