A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1375-1400, 1456-1598
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Schining, Schyning, Schenynge, vbl. n. Also: s(c)hynyng, shynning. [S(c)hine v.] The action of shining, in the senses of S(c)hine v.; brightness. Also pl. in sing. sense.(a) 1375 Barb. vi 219.
Sa saw he with the monys lycht Schynyng off scheldys gret plente c1400 Troy-bk. ii 401 (C).
Shynyng 1456 Hay I 6/14, 16.
The schynyng of the licht that come fra him [sc. Lucifer] disteynȝeid all the lave in clerenes of schynyng a1500 Golagros and Gawane 41.
Throu the schynyng of the son ane ciete thai se 1490 Irland Mir. II 79/23.
As the schynyng of the firmament in the hevinly realme of God 1490 Ib. III 160/2.
In the crovne ar mony precius stanis … as to the clernes brychtnes and schynyng of thame thai signify gret thingis and wertuus c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 204/20.
Ȝe clerkis … To us … in owr dirknes be lampis in schining [v.r. schyning] 1535 Stewart 19519.
Agane the schyning of the sone tha schone a1585 Maitland Quarto MS 246/8.
Bayth glistering gemmis & pearlis of pryce, thair schyning sall thou sie a1598 Ferg. Prov. MS No. 1234.
Schyting & shynning is good March weather(b) a1400 Legends of the Saints xi 76.
The payntur … mycht nocht grathly dress his ene For to behald hyme in the face, Sa ferly schenynge in it wespl. c1520-c1535 Nisbet III 292.
And the Lord thi God … sal fill thi saule with schynyngis [L. splendoribus]
