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Quotation dates: 1375-1420, 1475-1549
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Navyn(e, n. Also: naw- and -in(e, -en, -ing. [Sc. form corresp. to Navy n.; the origin of the suffix is obscure.] Ships (? espec. warships) collectively, shipping; a fleet.Be navyn(e, by ship. (Only in Wyntoun).(1) 1375 Barb. iii. 392.
Schyr Nele Cambel befor send he For to get him nawyn and meite a1400 Legends of the Saints xxxviii. 603.
A gret wynd rase … & scalit his nawine to & fra c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 1972.
The laif of the schippes fyne That followit nixt in the navyne c1420 Wynt. iv. 939.
Wytht all the ost off his nawyne [: kuvine] c1420 Ib. 691. c1420 Ib. 1355. c1420 Ib. vi. 1564; etc. c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace ix. 278. c1515 Asloan MS I. 188/10.
Thai come in a navyne thretty schippis full of men but women a1500 Bk. Chess. 398. 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 1616 (L). 1513 Id. Æn. iv. vi. 19.
Bad thai suld … Do graith hys schyppys and navyn [v.r. navine] secretly 1531 Bell. Boece (M) I. 29. 1533 Boece i. ii. 35 b.
Gathele … made Hyber admirall of the navyn 1533 Ib. iv. xii. 144.
The Romane navyne 1533 Ib. viii. xii. 276 b.
The residew of his navin 1533 Ib. iii. iii. 93 b. 1535 Stewart 11218. a1538 Abell 39 a.
He gat ane multitude of knythtis & a nawin of schippis 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 91/10.
Ane grit nauen of schipis be seey burde(b) 1533 Boece iv. xv. 150.
At Alect in sure portis stabling thare naving 1533 Ib. viii. iv. 254.
At cuming of this stark naving 1533 Ib. i. ii. 35 b. 1533 Ib. xiii. vi. 509 b. 1535 Stewart 20796.
Of his naving the tua part neir wes lost 1535 Ib. II. 601 heading.
How Sweno … causit Camus … cum in Scotland with ane greit armie and naving of schippis 1535 Ib. 38616.
Neirby Bamburch … Thir tua navingis togidder thair tha met 1535 Ib. 30423. 1535 Ib. 38336.(2) c1420 Wynt. ii. 251.
Ysis … In Egypte passyde be nawyn [: syne] c1420 Ib. iii. 573.
Be nawyne in tyll Albany Arrywyde all that cumpany c1420 Ib. ii. 436.
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