A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1500-1512, 1575, 1658-1692
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Spanit, ppl. adj. Also: spaind, speaned, spean'd. [e.m.E. spaned (1560); Spane v.] Weaned. Also in fig. context. —c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 41/24.
My new spaind howphyn fra the sowk 1575 Edinburgh Testaments V 106b.
Of lambes spanit … ten scoir price of the scoir … v li. 1658 Melrose Reg. Rec. I 172.
Speaned lambes 1692 Presbyterian Eloquence (1693) 94.
For thy own bairns, Lord, feed them with the plumdames and raisons of thy promises … That like new spean'd fillies, they may loup over the fold-dikes of grace
