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Owand, Owen, Own(e, pres. p. [Cf. e.m.E. owing, late ME. owynge (14–15th c.), and Awand and Awing.] a. Of persons: Owing. b. Of moneys etc.: Owed. —a. 1674 Sc. Ant. I. 179.
To nurse to pay sumething she was owen of hir owne [£2/18/0.] 1674 Meikle Old Session Bk. 41.
Who were oun any thing to the churchb. 1653 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 262.
How to get moneys to pay … the pryce of the lands … yet owne 1681 Irvine Mun. II. 293.
And lykevayes give to Captaine Strahane eight leg dollors and that for bygone locallitie owne by the toune 1686 Meikle Old Session Bk. 117.
Own 1687 Hector Renfrewshire Rec. II. 143.
The debts … underwritten owand be them to me 1695 Corshill Baron Ct. 189.
As the pryce of five stone of aller barkes owand be him
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