A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1475-1605, 1665-1680
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Harn-pan, n. Also: harne-pan(e, -panne; hardyn pan (erroneous form). [Northern e.m.E. and ME. harn pan. ne, hern pan (a 1300), f. Harnis n.: cf. MDu., MLG. hernepanne. Also mod. Sc. and north. Eng. dial.] The skull, the brain-pan.a1400 Legends of the Saints vii. 218.
He the harne-pane brak in twyn & blud & harnys owte can ryne c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace iii. 365.
Throuch bukler, hand, and the harnpan also, To the schulderis, the scharp suerd gert he go 1513 Doug. v. viii. 113.
Hys stern burdon … Persyt the harn pan, draif out the brayn in hy 1513 Ib. ix. vii. 113. 1533 Boece xi. xx. 449 b.
The harne pannys war nocht like the banis of men now liffand 1540 Lynd. Sat. 1355.
Tak thair ane vther [slap] vpon thy peild harne-pan 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 154/10.
I am leukand gif i can fynd my fathers hardyn pan amang thir dede mennis banis1586 Reg. Privy C. IV. 118.
[They] struke him upoun the heid with ane Jedburgh stalff and clave his harne-pan thairwith 1599 6th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 661/1.
His head is couttit, and four or fyue inches of his harne paaune [sic] to fall furth 1605 Aberd. Kirk S. 49.
Scho stered his new aill with ane deid mannis harne pan 1665 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. II. 89.
[They] felled her doune to the ground … and dang in her harnpan 1680 Argyll Justic. Rec. I. 121.
For murdering of Duncan McLeland … by … breaking … his harn pan
