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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1375, 1475-1605
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Grane, n.1 Also: grain, grayne. [Northern ME. grane (a 1300), midl. & south. gron(e; f. Grane,v.] A groan.(a) 1375 Barb. xiii. 35.
Men herd nocht ellis bot granys & dyntis c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxvi. 24.
Throw skaldand fyre ay as thay skippit, Thay gyrnd with hiddous granis [: at anis] c1500-c1512 Id. xxxiv. 81.
The fische wyffis flett and swoir with granis 1533 Boece ix. vii. 303.
Oure all the feildis herde war the granis and lamentaciouns of woundit men 15.. Clariodus ii. 1131.
Baith hurlit bakward thair steidis with a grane a1568 Peder Coffeis 21.
Lyk Romerakaris with awsterne granis Speikand curlyk ilk ane till vder c1550 Lynd. Meldrum 905.
Sichand with monie gant and grane, To fair Venus makand his mane(b) c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace vii. 459.
The peple Rewmyd in reuth, with mony grysly grayne a1605 Montg. Ch. & Slae 306.
In angwische I langwische With mony grievous grainis
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