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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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UNE, n.¹, v. Also ün (Sh. 1914 Angus Gl.), uin, o'en (Ayr. 1811 W. Aiton Agric. Ayr. 687), oon (Edb. 1791 J. Learmont Poems 199); ine (Peb., Lnk. 1919 T.S.D.C.); oaven . Sc. forms and usages of Eng. oven (Sc. 1808 Jam., Kcb. 1900; Slk. 1929). [øn. yn, ɪn]

I. n. 1. As in Eng. Also applied to a large shallow pan used as an oven for baking bread by being covered with glowing embers (Dmf. 1894 Trans. Dmf. and Gall. Antiq. Soc. 152; Lnk. 1919 T.S.D.C.).Sc. 1736 Ramsay Proverbs (1776) 87:
Ye was set aff frae the oon for nipping the pyes.Slk. 1822 Hogg Perils of Man (1972) vi.:
He has made my hinderlands as warm as they had been in an oon.Bwk. 1876 W. Brockie Confessional 172:
In the Pope's hett oon get a guid swelter.Gsw. 1950 John Lavin in Moira Burgess and Hamish Whyte Streets of Stone (1985) 79:
'Uncle Matt brocht in fish an' chips. Ah left some by for ye in the oaven.'Edb. 2004:
Ah've goat twa oavens in my hoose - a fan yin an a normal yin.

2. Combs.: (1) Arthur's O'on, an ancient monument near the Roman Wall at Falkirk, demolished in 1743, traditionally associated with King Arthur and so named on account of its shape, circular with a domed roof. It is supposed to have been a Roman temple or triumphal monument (see Archaeological Jnl. CXV. 99 sqq.). Hist.; (2) oen-cake, oon-, a thick cake made of oatmeal and yeast and baked in an oven (Ags., Fif. a.1838 Jam. MSS. X. 225), also in Eng. dial.; (3) o'en mou, the mouth or door of an oven; ‡(4) uin-pan, oon-, a pot or saucepan used as a kind of oven (see 1.) (Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B.); (5) une-pot, id. (Dmf. 1958); (6) o'en wheat, flour-bread, bakery stuff.(1) Sc. 1726 A. Gordon Itiner. Septentr. 24:
An Account of Arthur's Oon, the little Roman Sacellum upon the River Carron.Sc. 1810 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. 245:
Arthur's-oven, on the Carron, was known by that name, as early, if not earlier than the reign of Alexander III.Slg. 1845 Stat. Acc.² VIII. 357:
A remarkable Roman building called Arthur's Oon, i.e. Arthur's Oven. . . . The footpath passing up the slope was long known by the name of the Oon-path.(2) Fif. 1806 A. Douglas Poems 147:
The saft o'en cakes in mony stack, Are set in order rarely.Fif. 1864 W. D. Latto T. Bodkin xxxv.:
Oon cakes an' cheese in wechtfu's.(3) Kcd. 1819 J. Burness Plays 293:
'Tis kindlier here at the o'en mou An' seeking in the barn, I true.(6) Ags. 1776 C. Keith Farmer's Ha' 6:
Gude scouder'd bannocks has nae gou' To husbandmen; For o'en wheat dits ilka mou'.

II. v. To bake in an oven.Peb. 1817 R. D. C. Brown Comic Poems 65:
The first [cake] I bought, frae this same chap, Was o'ened and buttered weell.