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: 1375, 1456, 1509-1695
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Hyne, Hynd(e, n. Also: hyen, hind(e. [e.m.E. hind, hynd(e (1520), ME. hyne, hine (c 1205), from ME. hine, OE. hine, plur., members of a household, domestics. See also Half-hind.]
1. A (hired or feed) farm-servant, a farm-workman.In modern Sc. use, a hynd is ‘a married and skilled farmworkman, for whom a cottage is provided on the farm … ; he has the charge of a pair of horses and a responsible part in the working of the farm. He … ranks above the farm-servants and labourers’. This sense is no doubt to be understood for some of the quots. below: see espec. those for 1690 and 1695.(a) 1456 Exchequer Rolls VI. 206.
Octo servitoribus grangiarum [in Galloway] … dictis hynys 1509–9 Rentale Dunkeld. MS. 73 b.
Et lie hynes laboran. lie manes 1513 Ib. (S.H.S.) 186.
John Garwy [etc.] … , lie hynys [in Cluny] 1513 Doug. xiii. Prol. 171.
Tyte on hys hynys gaif the greif a cry, Awaik on fut, go till our husbandry 1513 Ib. 175.
The hynys wife clepis vp Katheryn and Gill 1531 Criminal Trials I. 156.
[There being but] hynis, wifis, and barnis, quhilkis war nocht risponsale to our souerane lord 1533 Bell. Livy II. 85/27.
The faderis, dredand throw this mortalite that the hynis and lauboraris of thare landis suld peris be hunger 1550 Protocol Book of Sir William Corbet 12.
The hyen that thair was plewman 1550 Reg. Great S. 109/2.
Domus Thome Wecheman coloni, lie hyne dicti dom. de Edmonstoun 1609 Skene Reg. Maj. I. 115.
Be multiplication … of hynes or of hirdes them [sc. cattle, etc.] keipand(b) 1535 Stewart 13319.
To the Romanis hindis for till be, Thairfoir to keip thair flokis for thair fe 1568 Edinburgh Testaments 106 b.
Alexr Bar, hynd to the Lard of Cunyinghame 1591 Criminal Trials I. ii. 238.
The said Dauid being stayit to cum that day, … the wrak lichtit in the hyndis gudisa1628 Carmichael Prov. No. 940.
It that will not be horse corne wilbe hynds bollis1656 Edinb. Justices Peace 405.
A whole hind or labourer of the ground is such a servant as should ... be able to perform ... every manner of work relating [to husbandry]1690 Foulis Acc. Bk. 119.
John Stein, John Key [etc.] … to be hynds for 10 bolls oats [etc.] … , and a kaill yard, and a house to each of them 1695 Ib. 174.
To Rot Ronald [etc.], to drink when they wer biging up the gavell of the hynds houses
b. Attrib. with boll, man, ȝeman.1569 Edinburgh Testaments 232.
To Johne Thomesoun hynd … for his hynd bollis xvi bollis of aittis 1572 Satirical Poems xxxiii. 294.
Ȝe, my commounis, with my hynd ȝemen 1581 Ib. xliii. 190.
The hirdis and hinde men in their labeis lay
2. a. A lad, stripling.1375 Barb. xi. 217.
Valtir, Steward of Scotland, syne, That than wes bot ane berdlas hyne a1578 Pitsc. I. 4/15.
Perfytt memorie … Of thingis consawit quhan I was hynde
b. Every hyne, every person, everyone.1513 Doug. v. xiii. 1.
Be this has al the pepil, euery hyne, The feste continewit
