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Wovin, -yn, ppl. adj. Also: woven, wowin(g, -yn, vovin, -ein, -an, vowin, wol(e)vin, wolvyne, volvin(e, -een, wolfin, woffin, weffin, wefen, vaffin, weff. [e.m.E. wouen (1560).] Woven, made by weaving. There is ambiguity with some forms of Wollin adj. Some examples may belong there, and vice versa. b. Vovin on, attached during the process of weaving or by a method similar to weaving. c. fig. Vowin up, put together, accumulated (applied to accusations or charges).(a) c1475 Wall. i 242.
A wowyn quhyt hatt 1513 Doug. iii vii 30.
Andromacha … Brocht to ws … rych wedis … And to Ascanyus a prowd tawbart gave … Hym and his feris of hir nedyll wark And wovyn dowreys furnyst, worth mony mark 1513 Doug. xii v 133.
The wovyn gyrdill … Abufe his navill was beltit a1586 Maitland Geneal. Setoun 34.
Ane pendicle … of fine vowin arras 1562 Will A. Betoun 223.
vj wowing coweris to beddys a1585 Maitland in Maitl. Q. 2/26.
Thair wovin hois of silk ar schawin Burrit aboue with tafteis drawin 1582 Treas. Acc. MS 49b.
Ane pair of wowin schankis … iij li. xv s. 1598 Black Bk. Taymouth 321.
Wowin Scottis coueringis 1602 Shetland Sheriff Ct. (ed.) 32.
The stowth of ane wowin sok 1608 Tailor's Acc. Bk. A 56b.
Ane pair of vovin wirsit schankis … v lib. 1610 Edinb. Test. XLVI 121b.
Ane wowin dresser claith 1611 Tailor's Acc. Bk. A 93b.
For ane hat … xxx s. … ane vovin pasment and ane brow beand to it x s. 1612 Bk. Rates (Halyb.) 293.
Busteanis or woven tweill stuffe 1654 Edinb. Test. LXVII 276b.
Ane vovan covering 1659 Craven Ch. in Orkney II 196.
Ane vovein covreing(b) 1569 Treas. Acc. XII 175.
Blak welvote to be his grace twa bonettis … twa silkin wolvin bonettis to weir under thame 1578 Inv. Wardrobe 221.
Ane uther [gown] of wolvin silver upoun blak velvot 1578 Inv. Wardrobe 236.
Ten pair of wolvin hois of gold silver and silk. Thre pair of wolvin hois of worsett of Garnsay 1597 Glasgow Bonnetmakers App. 85.
Volvine sockis 1597 Glasgow Bonnetmakers App. 86.
Wolvyne sockis 1597 R. Brown Paisley I 179.
Four ells fine lyning claith wolevin sufficiently 1614 Edinb. Test. XLVIII 81.
Wolvin schankis 1615 Haddington Corr. 291.
Ane reid and yellow voluin lynit covering 1617 Edinb. Test. L 38b.
Quhyt volvin claith 1640 Brechin Test. V 274b.
Ane volveen covering(c) 1529 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV 230.
The coviring of the burd of wolfin worsett with xij seruiotis of dornik 1613 Edinb. Test. XLVII 225b.
xx pair wolfin schankis(d) 1568 Edinb. Test. I 215b.
xxx dosane of woffin bottonis … xvij s. 1614 Wedderb. Compt Bk. 83.
Ane woffin bed(e) 1503 Treas. Acc. II 213.
For ane unce silk to be weffin pointis to the king 1736 Dundee B. Laws 458.
Androw Grive, bonnetmaker [etc.] … hath agried with James Milne is son for a yeares work … his work being two dozen of thred seies [= third size] wefen and dresen on and twentie manglars working and dresen and eghtin fourt sies working and drisen(f) 1625 Brechin Test. IV 183b.
Sex dussoun hemp girdin xxxvj s. Item tua dussoun vaffin girdin xxxij s.(g) 1692 Inchmahome Pr. 159.
Tuo weff hylland beltsb. 1602 Tailor's Acc. Bk. A 19a.
Payit for ane hat … xxx s. … for ane vovin on pasment and ane browband to it x s.c. c1650 Spalding II 14.
My lordis, there yit remanes another tressoun; that I suld be gviltie of the endevouring to subuert the … lawis of the land, that thay sould be now tressoun togidder, that is, not tressoun in ony pairt of tressoun accumulatiue, so that, when all will not do it, it is vowin wp with otheris, it sould seim veray strange