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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1490-1699
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Urine, -yn(e, n. Also: uring, -yng, urian. [ME and e.m.E. urine (c1325), vryn (Manning), vryne (Lydgate), OF urine (12th c.), L. ūrīna.] Urine. Also, to mak uryne, to urinate. Also attrib. with glasse, = Urinal(l n. attrib.(1) 1490 Irland Mir. I 67/15.
Thar had bene expulsioune and egestioune of the superfluiteis … be … honest wayis, as vryn and vthere superfluite a1500 Buke of the Sevyne Sagis 651.
This mediciner … to the seike barne couth him speid His pous his vryne sone he says 1490 Irland Mir. III 12/2.
And in na vthir liquor may be ministerit this sacrament [sc. baptism] nouthir in wyne, aill … vryn [etc.] 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 5578.
Than Galiene … Felt his punsis, and als his vrine saw 1568 Skeyne Descr. Pest 13.
Thair is mony notis quhilkis schauis ane man infectit be pest … frequent puls small & profund quhais vrine for the maist part is turbide thik [etc.] 1568 Skeyne Descr. Pest 18.
Purgatioun is perfytit mony wayis as be the intestines, vrines, exercise [etc.] 1581-1623 James VI Poems I 158/864 (see Ureter n.). 16… Alchem. MSS V.
The work of sulphur common … brey it to poudre and imbeve it with strong vrine of a wholsum young man 1500-1699 Herbarius Latinus Annot. (Bot.).
Vring as it wer motis of the sonne … betak[ines] grene and new homoris in the body 1500-1699 Herbarius Latinus Annot. (Bot.).
In the begynnyn of the seik[nes] at the vring is reid & thik sall the seiknes seikerlie be sorie 1500-1699 Herbarius Latinus Annot. (Bot.).
The thynnar that the vryng is the feblar is the man 1500-1699 Herbarius Latinus Annot. (Bot.).
The mottis in a vomanis vryng [proves] at that woman is with barne, … & gif that thing be quhit that driffis tharin sa is it a madyn child(2) 1620 Perth Kirk S. MS 4 Jan.
Donald Reid being accuseit for passing furth of the kirk befoir the afoirnones sarmond wes endit … anserit that he past furth to mak vryne and returneit agane(3) attrib. 1685 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries LVIII 358.
Ane urian glasse
