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, 1438-1535, 1591-1592
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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 1513 Id. viii. i. 33 (B).
The god … of the still ryver … .A lenȝe watry garmond dyd hym vaill
