A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1456-1633
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Newing, -yn, vbl. n.1 [ME. (1387) and e.m.E. newyng(e. Also, in sense 2, as newins, ans, etc., in the mod. dialects of Galloway and Ulster.]
1. Renewing, renewal, repeating.a1400 Legends of the Saints xxxvii. 81.
He wald nocht thai de suld sa Bot newing of gret payne 1456 Hay I. 3/30.
To mak sum newing of thing till enforme ȝour ȝouthede of mony syndry knaulagis of haly wrytt c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace vi. 196.
Quhar gret dulle is bot rademyng agayne, Newyn off it is bot ekyng off payne
2. A new and different course of action.c1460 Alex. (Taym.) 3562.
For and I in my newing towart be Thare sall neuer man fra this day rew on me 1522–3 Acta Conc. Publ. Aff. 161.
Your lordship may … use the samyn scharp ways and newingis contrar the brekaris
3. plur. New things, novelties; in na or not newings, no novelty, nothing new, = Newis n. pl. 3.1562 Q. Kennedy Ressoning *iii b.
Quhair ye say your cumming in this cuntrie was simplie to propone vnto the people Jesus Christ crucified … praised be to God, that was na newingis in this cuntrie or ye war borne 1562 Ib. D ii a.
Apperanlie that sould be na newingis to yow 1633 Rutherford Lett. (1891) 89.
Strokes are not newings to Him, and neither are they to you
4. The working of the yeast in the making of ale.Also in the mod. dial. in similar proverbs: cf. also Eng. dial. newing, neaving, yeast.a1598 Ferg. Prov. No. 474.
It is a sairie brewing that is not good in the newing a1628 Carmichael Prov. No. 1624.
