A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1499-1513, 1567-1568
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(Plening,) Plen-, Pleynyng, vbl. n. [ME. pleynyng (1340).] Complaining, lamentation. —a1500 Quare of Jelusy 96.
Allace gret reuth hir pleynyng was to here a1500 Ib. 233.
To recist agaynis tyranny … With syking wailling pleynyng and prayere 1513 Doug. vii. viii. 58.
[The hart] With hys plenyng all the hows fillis he a1568 Bann. Bannatyne MS 231 a/30.
Sen Athropos my fatell threid hes worne In plenyng soir and rewthfull womenting
