A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1513, 1606
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(Brain-,) Brayn-, Branepan, n. [ME. brayn panne (c 1400).] The skull. —1513 Doug. x. vii. 131.
The harnys poplit furth on the brayn pan 1606 Birnie Kirk-b. x.
Caluary: so called (as some thinke) from Adams brane-pan