A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1500-1681
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Prene, Prein, Prin(e, v.1 Also: prynn-. [ME preonen (c 1250) to pin or stitch up, prene(n (c 1320) to pierce, after c 1460 appar. only Sc., f. Prene n.] tr. To fasten with a pin, to pin.Const. into or on something else, with (a certain type of pin), and on adv.(1) 15.. Wyf of Auchtirmuchty 37 (K).
The goodwife … Vpon hir heart laid a fyne disjune Sho preind mair to Jock in hir lap [B. Scho put alsmekle in hir lap] Nor wold have serued three honest men at noone 1675 Biggar ix 96.
For a dosen of great prinies to prin the mortcloath and horscloath(2) 1542 Acts & Decr. I 140 b.
Ane pair of gluvis of claith wovin prynnit with gold(3) 1572 Satirical Poems xxxiii 22.
My coller, of trew nichtbour lufe it was, Weill prenit on with kyndnes and solas(4) 1624 Lanark Presb. 2.
Ane discharg … heir prined into the book 1647–8 Misc. Spald. C. V 108.
The papers that is prined on the bristis of thes that stand on the scaffold 1681 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. MS 16 Feb.
With ane paper prined on his bonnet
