A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1500-1599
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Inclining, Inclyning, vbl. n. Also: inclynyng, -eng, -nnyng. [ME. inclynynge (c 1400), enclynynge (c 1384).] a. Bowing or bending down. b. Sloping. c. Inclination. —a. a1568 Bannatyne MS 28 a/23.
Quhen men his glorius name dois nem, Hevin, erd, and hell makis inclynyng 15.. Clariodus v. 1648.
Syne tuike thair leave with humbill inclyningsb. 1596 Dalr. I. 30/25.
In … a plane field, haueng na inclyneng or bowingc. c1500-c1512 Dunb. xlvi. 52.
To luve eik natur gaif thame inclynnyng
