A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Lenȝé, a. Also: lenȝie, leny(i)e, lengy. [Var. of Lignie, Linȝé a.] Fine, thin, slender.Said only of persons or animals or their limbs etc., or of textiles: but cf. Lignie a.(1) 1375 Barb. i. 387 (H).
His body wes weyll maid and lenye [A. lenyie], As thai that saw hym said to me ?1438 Alex. i. 667.
With … shoulderis braid, And small in vame and als lenȝie, And large fute and fair had he c1460 Alex. (Taym.) 523.
Ane hors … His hed was soft small lengy as cordwan c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 169 (M).
Thy lang lenȝe [B. lene] craig 1535 Stewart 217.
Big in the brawnis and lenȝe in the kneis 1591-2 Rob Stene 11.
The grewhound, swift and lenȝie, The sarest bytar of that menȝie(2) 1513 Doug. vii. xvi. 29 (Sm.).
Rych lenȝe wobbis Id. viii. i. 33 (B).
The god … of the still ryver … .A lenȝe watry garmond dyd hym vaill
