A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Quotation dates: 1456, 1569-1700+
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Rein, Rain(e, n. Also: reine, reyn(e, raign(e. [ME and e.m.E. reyne, rayne (both 14th c.), reign (1560), rein, OF rainne, raigne, reigne. Cf. Renȝe n. and Ren(e n.] (A) rein. a. = Renȝe n. 1. b. fig. = Renȝe n. 2.a. 1456 Hay II 49/13.
His coursere … has bridill gevin till him, with irne bytt in the mouth and reynis in the knychtis hand sa that the knycht may refreyne the hors c1614 Mure Dido & Æneas i 220.
Æolus … them [sc. winds] confining, … a prince imposed To let or loose their rains 1673 Leith Customs 25.
2 dozen raignes for bridles 1674 Cunningham Diary 35.
Reins to a snifle bitt, 8 s. 6 d. 1701 Household Bk. Gr. Baillie 7.
For bearing rains to the cochb. a1570-86 Maitland Folio MS 208/28.
Defend thame … Sen of the law thow leidis the reyne 1597 James VI Dæmonol. (S.T.S.) 76/32.
The raines being loosed to all the insolencies that disordered people can committe 1611 Reg. Privy C. IX 611.
The rememberance of a guid fyne once payed for his past ryot; whiche will serve as the best reynis to affray him frome comeing of new within compas 1625 Garden Kings 6.
With ane louse raine t'unrighteousnes he ran c1639 Mure Psalmes cvi 14.
[The Israelites] in the desart, lowsse did lett The rains to concupiscence great 1666-74 Fraser Polichron. 432.
Every person tooke loose reines to do as he would
