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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1499-1663
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Urinal(l, -ale, n. Also: urinell, urynall, -ale, wrinell. Also metanalysed variant: newrenall. [ME and e.m.E. vrinal (Layamon), vrynal (Chaucer), vrynalle (Cath. Angl.), vrinall (1542), OF urinal (12th c.), L. ūrīnal.] A glass vial, esp. one designed to hold urine for medical inspection. Also attrib. and fig.a1500 Buke of the Sevyne Sagis 663.
Scho … gart baith thair watteris till him bring … He kest thaim in his vrinale Quhat he thair sawe he wald nocht tell c1500 Fyve Bestes 187.
Of phesik he baire ane vrynale To se thir folk gif thai war seike or hale 1503 Treasurer's Accounts II 404.
For urinales of glasses to the king and potingaris, xv s. 1505–6 Treasurer's Accounts III 182.
For vij urynales to quinta essencia 1507 Treasurer's Accounts IV 86.
Urynalls 1530 Balmerino and L. Chart. ii. 33.
Ane newrenall1551 Hamilton Catechism 123.
Ye suld use the law as ane spiritual urinal, for … quhen the watter of a seik man is lukit in ane urinal, the seiknes commonly is knawin, and than remede is socht 1601 Treasurer's Accounts MS 80b.
Vrinellis 1612 Bk. Rates (Halyb.) 309.
Glasses called viallis or vrinallis 1631 Buccleuch Household Bk. 22 Nov.
For an wrinell to your lordshipattrib. 1575 Edinburgh Testaments III 318.
In [an apothecary's] … buith … ten vrinall glasis price xx s. 1641 Edinburgh Testaments LIX 269.
Certane glasis … hour glasis vrinall glasis and desert glasisfig. 1551 Hamilton Catechism 123 (see above). 1663 Mackenzie Religious Stoic 19.
There ye shall know by the urinal of his eyes, and the water standing therein, what convulsion-fits his soul suffers
