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: 1399-1596
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Hind, Hynd(e, n.1 Also: hyind; hine, hyne. [ME. hynde, hind(e, OE. hind.] A hind, a female (red) deer; a figure representing this.(a) a1400 Legends of the Saints xx. 48.
Hart & hynd, da & ra 1456 Hay II. 23/14.
Knychtis suld … lere … to hunt and hauk at hert and hynde a1500 Henr. Fab. 892.
The da, the ra, the hornit hart, the hynd 1513 Doug. xii. Prol. 179.
The sprutlyt calvys sowkand the red hyndis 1531 Bell. Boece I. 186.
That na man sla ane baggit hynd, not yit thair calffis 1531 Ib. II. 297.
Ane gret forest, full of baris, hindis, toddis c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2288.
Ane hynde sett vp besyde Sanct Geill 1574 Reg. Morton I. 80.
Prayand yow therfor to … resaue fra this berer ane hyind and mowir fowlis(b) 1596 Dalr. I. 7/2.
Flockis of scheip or gait or than grett harte or hyne 1596 Ib. 39/4.
Rosse … in hart and hine, dae and rae … flowis in abundance
b. Attrib. with calf, skin.14.. Acts I. 304/2.
Of a dakyr of hynd calwis [i.e. skins], thre half peniis 1424 Ib. II. 6/1.
Ilke x of hert and hynde skynnis xij d. 1533 Boece v. vii. 177.
That the hynde calf & fowne suld euer be salf fra the huntaris
