DSL - DOST   King, n. Also: kinge, kinng, kink, ky(n)ng(e, kying, keng, keyng.  [ME. king, kyng, OE. cyning, cyni3, cyng (late OE. cining, cing).
    Common, chiefly in the possess. form, in early place-names, as Kingeswell (c 1200 Liber Dryburgh 139), Kingessete (c 1200 Liber Calchou 100), Kynggesside (a 1300 Chart. Neubotle 23), Kynggewell (a 1300 Ib. 27), Kyngeston (1221 Liber Dryburgh 255), Kyngestrete (c 1330 Liber Calchou 368), Kynkistret (1345 Ib. 379).]
    As applied to the King of Scotland at the time of writing, often replaced by the complimentary designations, our soverane, our soverane lord, his grace, his hienes, his maiesté, and in the possess., our soverane lordis, etc.

    A. 1. A king, or the King, in usual applications and collocations. (1)  To cheys a king ... That off awncestry cummyn were Off kingis; Barb. i. 44.  The Erische kyngis; Ib. xviii. 115.  Wyth ony sic worschipfull kynge as 3he ar; 1405 Slater Early Sc. Texts No. 59.  Thare sall na state endure, In caysere, kyng, na empriowre; Wynt. v. 2742.  Cruell kingis with crovne; Howlat 294.  Quhat difference thare is betuix a noble prince and a tyrane king; Hay I. 69/35.  Quhy suld nocht ... the baroun help him selff agayne his king, as the king agayne him; Ib. 125/6.  Justice makis riche ... Bath king and knaif; Regim. Princ. 156.  Mony cairfull kyng and qwene; Henr. Orph. 317.  Als on the se I clypyt was a king; Wall. ix. 214.  That certane of our kingis suld haf maid homage vnto 3our kingis of Yngland; Asl. MS. I. 197/9.  King amang all the kyngis of the erde; Prester John 310.  At verite wes starkar na kyng, vyn or women; Abell 12 b.  Ane king is cum amang us That purposis to hede and hang us; Lynd. Sat. 3219.  Nobill natiue kingis; Rolland Seven S. 520.  Gif kingis wald mes to Rome hens dryve; G. Ball. 212.  Ane king sekand tresoun he may fynd land; Bann. MS. 134 b/2.  The kyng that deit in Flowdoun; 1598 Misc. Spald. C. I. 120.  Four Irland kingis; Monro W. Isles 9.  Monarchs great, examples good should give ... . Kinkes be the glas; Craig i. 15/22.  The Franshe King; 1623 Melrose P. 503. (2)  We cum pure, we gang pure, baith king & commoun; Howlat 983.  Now thai him kep to martyr ... before king and commoun; Wall. xi. 1280.  All stents ... to be imposit vpoun the saidis lands ... ather be kirk or king; 1643 Boyd Fam. P. 31 Jan. (3)  Than Thelagonius was maid kyng; Troy-bk. ii. 3052.  Quhat lord thai suld ches to be kyng; Wynt. vii. 227.  3one carlis word, as he war king, sall stand; Henr. Fab. 2244.  I admit thé nocht as king; Steel Roy Robert 31.  Quheu Edwarde Bal3oun rais to king; Ib. 186.  Sum [wald be] capytane, sum caisar, and sum king; Doug. viii. Prol. 137.  [He] wes bot intrusit king; Stewart 97834. (4)  In the tyme that I was kyng in Jerusalem; Wisd. Sol. 376.  He kend bot Wallace king in Kyle; Kennedy Flyt. 284.  Quhow micht it be that ane Kinloquhy culd be king in Linlythqow; Win3et I. 50/4. (5)  Schir Eduard, ... Callit the Kyng of Irland; Barb. xv. 161.  Dauid Kyng qwhilom of Scotland; 1389 Facs. Nat. MSS. II. 47.  Robert throv the grace of God Kyng of Scottys; 1397 Slater Early Sc. Texts No. 34.  All kingis of Scotland suld be sa vnctit; Wynt. viii. 2930.  As King of Jowis thai salust him in scorne; Contempl. Sinn. 995.  The lyon King of bestis; Bk. Chess 170.  The King of Beistis mak I thé; Dunb. xlviii. 103.  King Alexander of Scotland; Boece 24.  This potent Pope of Rome, The Souerane Kyng of Christindome; Lynd. Mon. 4282.  James the first, King of Scottis; Diurn. Occurr. 266.  The King of Ingland with his gartan ... maid him illustre; Dalr. II. 230/22.  How there was a king and queen of Pharie; Sinclair Satan's Invisible World 214. (6)  Now quhen Antiochus Kyng Wyth the Romanis made anyng; Wynt. iv. xviii. h.  Till Alexandyr the Kyng; Ib. 1923.  In Cardros quhare the Kyng Robert lay; Ib. viii. 3115.  The King of Mede ... , Jonand him fast to Nicolas the King; Alex. (Taym.) 1494.  This forsaid King Henry Beauclerk; Asl. MS. I. 203/15.  King Robert Brus thair infeftar; 1512 Reg. Privy S. I. 374/1.  3e cry on Cupeid King ... in vane; Scott xxxiv. 41. (b)  As quhen he arguit opynly Kink Herrod of his adultery; Leg. S. xxxvi. 454. (c)  Oure nobill illustir prince, Kying James the Fyift; Compl. 2/22. (7)  Thai met the Kyng; Barb. vii. 177.  Til Inde, ... Quhare Gundoforus is thare Kynnge; Leg. S. vi. 8.  Vnder the ferme pese and proteccion of oure lorde the Kyng; a 1400 Bute MS. fol. 141.  Grant befor the Kyng; Acts I. 299/1.  That nane haff lord ... other na the King, the Duke, and the Erll of Marr; 1412 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 389.  That Kyng wytht crowne Thai knewe welle be his habyrjowne; Wynt. iv. 2279.  The gud King gaif the gaist; Howlat 462.  For a govne to the King; 1474 Treas. Acc. I. 22.  My wretchit spous and Kinge; Doug. ii. x. 20.  Wit said, Schir King be war; K. Hart 673.  The gret sele of our soueran lord the King; 1550 Reg. Cupar A. II. 75.  To put doun the young King; Buch. Wr. 23.  Than come 3our King; 1570 Sat. P. x. 182.  In fauour with the King; Dalr. I. 268/24.  Called before the King and Counsell; Skene Reg. Maj. ii. 157. (b)  Sa gretly the Kink dred thai; Leg. S. xxvi. 784. (c)  At the entres of the Keng, to the menstrallis viij s.; 1524 Edinb. Hammermen 113. (8) transf.  Confes thy crime, hald Kennedy the [B. thy] King; Kennedy Flyt. 326.  The Deuill, ... Quhilk of this warld is prince and King; G. Ball. 12.
    b. Applied to god or Christ.  Der God, that is off Hevyn King; Barb. ii. 144.  Befor the auchtfull jug & King; Leg. S. ii. 1102.  I ame Criste ... , The kink that thu seruis here; Ib. xix. 260.  In plesans of the Kyng of kyngis; Wynt. Prol. 126.  Crist our souerane King; Contempl. Sinn. 214.  Befoir the michti King of glorye; Dunb. lxxii. 4.  Than Symon said, I sweyr be Hewinis King [etc.]; Freiris Berw. 448.
    c. The (three) Kingis of Cul(l)ane (= Cologne), the Magi or three Wise Men, whose remains were said to be preserved in Cologne Cathedral since 1163.  The smythes and hammirmen sal fynd the three Kingis of Culane; 1442 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 9.  To the Kingis offerand in honour of the three Kingis; 1506-7 Treas. Acc. III. 285.  For gold fuilyie and parchment to the Kingis of Cullane; 1507 Lanark B. Rec. 18.  Offerit to the three Kingis of Culane iij Franch crounis; 1511-12 Treas. Acc. IV. 181.  As Culen Kyngis that Christ adorned, Per aliam viam he returned; 1583 Sat. P. xlv. 669.
    d. To play King Herrot or King Herodis part.  King Herodis part thai playit in to Scotland, Off 3ong childer that thai befor thaim fand; Wall. i. 165.  Adam Gordone, who playis King Herrot in the north, vpoun the Kingis freindis and guid subjectis; bot in speciall vpoun the Forbesses, whois rowmes he is going about to destroye with fyre and sword; Bann. Memor. 197.
    e. King of sacrifice, = L. rex sacrorum, a name given to the Roman priest who continued the sacrificial functions of the earlier kings.  Grete Jupiter and Romulus, ... and all the remanent kings eftir him succeding & the kingis of sacrifice ar callit men; Bell. Livy I. 300/6.  
    f. King of armis, the, or a,  principal herald . Lioun King of armis, see LIOUN n.
    Also ME. (1449- ). ---  Gevin to Irelande King of armis of Inglande; 1473 Treas. Acc. I. 67.
    g. King of bene: see BENE n. 2, BANE n.3 1, and BONE n.4 King of May, see MAY n.
    2. a. The king in chess.  The king Mor sober is in till his first moving; Bk. Chess 2052.  Ib. 2063.  The moving of the kingis knycht; Ib. 2068.
    b. King of the Firth.  The n. west wind they call the King of the Firth; Brand Orkney & Shetl. 144.
    B. In the possessive. 3. a. Belonging or pertaining to a king, or the King, in a private or personalcapacity. (1)  The Kyngis hert; Barb. xx. 306.  A gret stane ... for this Kyngis sete wes made; Wynt. iii. 1048.  For the gentill Kingis lufe; Alex. i. 393.  The byggen of the Kyngis rowbarge; 1494 Treas. Acc. I. 245.  Be that the Kings stewart cummin is; Prestis of Peblis 851.  Ane kingis dochter, ane madin bricht; Seven S. 127.  He ... bad him bovn To be in to the Kingis. gard; Ib. 2305.  The Kingis fais straike he dovn; Ib. 2311.  Thair treasonable intrometting with the Kingis persone; 1526 Reg. Privy S. I. 520/2.  Thre ... wyndois to the Kingis kechin; 1532 M. Works Acc. (ed.) 107.  To be ennemeis ... to yow, becaus ye manteine the Kingis actioun; Buch. Wr. 23. (2)  A dochtyr of ovre lorde the Kyngys; 1397 Douglas Chart. 38. (3)  The Kingis dochter of Nuby; Alex. i. 3204.  The Kingis knichtis of Damas; Ib. ii. 3593.
    b. With titles of honour, chiefly the Kingis grace, henes, hienes, etc., and majesté (see these words).  The grascheow[s]nes of the [sc. English] Kengys henes; 1544 Corr. M. Lorraine 100.
    4. Possessed, enjoyed, occupied or employed by the sovereign by virtue of his office; royal, crown-.
    e.g. the Kingis (rarely, King without inflection) armez, biging, castell, caytour, chalmer, chapell, comon, few, forest, hous, houshald (q.v.), land, male, man, etc. The Kingis day, a birthday or other anniversary of the King. ---  [There should be] the prent of the Kingis armez on the ta sid [of the coin]; 1488 Acts II. 212/2.  In the inner chalmer ... in payntit werk ... tua squair pecis with thair chaiplatis, the Kingis armis, [etc.]; 1532 M. Works Acc. (ed.) 94. ---  Sand to the Kingis biging; 1529-30 Ib. 18. ---  In yhemsale of the Kyngis castell; Acts I. 333/2.  Keipars ... of the Kingis castelles or strengthes; Skene Acts Table s.v. King. ---  As Kyngis caytouris; Howlat 645. ---  Prouest of the colleg kirk of our Lady, the Kingis chapell Sitwat within the cite of Sanctandris; 1467 8th Rep. Hist. MSS. 306/2. ---  Whither ... any of the saids witnesses knowes any mairches betuixt the Kings comon and kirk comon; 1670 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Processes 14 July. ---  Coillis to be ane fyre on the Kingis day; 1610 Hilderstoun Silver Mines III. 19 b.  The 5th of Nouember, being the Kingis day, debursit, at the cousellis command [on wine, etc.]; 1612-13 Misc. Spald. C. V. 90. ---  To the master of the ground and Kings few; 1685 Kirkcudbr. Test. (Reg. H.) 24 July. ---  Gif copy of ackornys hapnis to be in the Kingis forest; Acts I. 324/2.  Landis ... beand the Kingis fre forrestis, ordanit for the fence of his wild beistis; Balfour Pract. 133.  The Kings forrest very riche in deer; c 1641-54 Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. II. 536. ---  To the stewart of the Kingis hous for his fee xl lib.; Acts I. 346/2.  The Kingis house suld be susteined be the ... receivers of the rentes of his propertie; Skene Acts Table s.v. King.  Three of evrie estaitt ... To meitt anent the affairis of the Kingis hous; 1650 Acts VI. ii. 567/2. ---  The expens of the Kingis houshald is risin sa gret that his propirtie may nocht beire the samin; 1525 Ib. II. 296/1. ---  A lettre of tak ... of all and sindry the Kingis landis of Urquhard and Glenmorysen; 1508-9 Reg. Privy S. I. 272/1.  We, Robert, Earle of Orknay, ... have givin ... to the said Magnus Cursetter [etc.] ... the thrie penny land of Kinges land called Cursetter; 1587 Orkney & Shetland Rec. I. 210.  There is no kowisworth of land in the Kingis land or Bishoppis land, bot only in the vdall land; 1595 Orkney Rentals ii. 2.  1¾ den. lie Hamar in Aithstoun [in Orkney], viz. 1¼ den. ex antiquo lie Kingisland et ½ den. lie utalandis nuncupat.; 1633 Reg. Great S. 757/1.  William Mure his heretage, ... his Kinges land, ... his commoun land; 1642 Rothesay B. Rec. 944.  1689 Ib. 1010. ---  As tueching the Kingis malis, rentis and fermez that ar haldin fra his hienes; 1483 Acts II. 165/2.  He come to get the Kyngis mayll, & in nane ewell intent; 1527 Prestwick B. Rec. 52.  The commoun use of this realme to pay the Kingis maillis and dewteis to his hienes Comptrollar, is at ... Whitsounday and Martinmas; Balfour Pract. 135. ---  Thare he [Joseph, in Egypt] be-come the Kyngys man; Wynt. ii. 324.  That na vittallis ... be deryt apon our lorde the Kyngis men ... na be derrar sald quhar the Kyng remanis than thai war x days before his cummyng; 1424 Acts II. 7/2. ---  That nae man sall vse of sheip callet of auld the Kings mark quhilk is both the luggis off; 1629 Kirkwall Sheriff Ct. Act Bk. 13 b. ---  Quha sa evir he be that servis in the Kyngis mylne ... he sall hafe na servandis in the mylne; Acts I. 33/2. ---  Of the Kingis patrimonie; Balfour Pract. 133. ---  Touching the article of the Kingis propertie; 1489 Acts (1597) 77 b. ---  Of the Kyngis rent in borowagis; Acts I. 21/2.  The thrid of the Kingis rent of assise that is to say of landis ande custumys; 1466 Ib. II. 85/2.  The deteiners of the Kingis rentes, suld be punished; Skene Acts Table s.v. King. ---  The Kingis revocatioun: of in-bringing of his propertie, and payment of his servandis fies; Balfour Pract. 135. ---  Ony of the Kingis tenentis, malaris and inhabitantis his proper landis; 1489 Acts II. 222/2.  That uo processe could passe against them [the tenants of Lochmaben] bot befor the exchequer because they are the Kings tennents; 1661 Ib. VII. 243/2.  [In respect she stood infeft in the forsaid lands] and confirmed the King tenant under the great seal; 1666 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Processes 13 Mar.
    5. Pertaining to the sovereign in his official capacity as head of the state and of judicial authority; royal, crown-.
    a. In various combinations, as Kingis amerciament, auctorité, consale, court, croune, cun3e irnis, havyn, instance, irnis, lawis, licence, mercy, mister, monee, name, parliament, post, pundler, rebel, register, remission, roll(is, saif conduct, signet, trewis, will. Also the Kingis adjournal, apellacioun, brefe, chapell, chekker, eschete, hoste (oste), legis, lettir, pece, protectioun, see these words. The Kingis bluid, appar. = blood shed in contravention of the King's peace. Kingis burgh, = royal burgh; hence Kingis borowman, burgis (= burgesses). Kingis horn, see HORN n. 2 b, c. The Kingis Werk, see also WERK, WARK n.
    b. The Kingis calsay, gate, strete, way, also coupled with commoun and hie, he, etc., a main road or highway in the country or a main street in a town, so called as being specifically under the protection of the King's peace.
    (Appar. not always automatically replaced by Quenis during Mary's reign.)
    c. With the titles of officers of the crown. See also JUSTICE n. 6, 7. a.  In suilke case the Kyngis amerciament is x li. forthi it pertenys to the Kyng; Acts I. 34/2.  The challangeour [to] abyd in the Kingis amercyment; Ib. 381/2. ---  That it sall nocht be lefull to the lordis havand the Kingis auctoritie to vse the samin bot [etc.]; 1525 Acts II. 297/1.  The Kingis autoritie tobe establishit be the thre estaitis; 1567 Ib. III. 38/2.  Anent the ... chesing of the lordis ... [to] remane with our soverane lordis secreit counsall for the ... furth-putting of the Kingis authoritie; Balfour Pract. 13. ---  [They] hes done wrangis to 3ow and the towne be caus of spillyne of the Kingis bluid; 1516 Selkirk B. Ct. 49 a. ---  The Kyngis borowman may hafe batayle of abbotis borowmen [etc.]; Acts I. 23/2. ---  The criour of the Kyngis burgh; Ib. 34/2.  Togidder with the burrowmaill ... as the Kinges royall brughis hes; 1641 Peebles B. Rec. I. 102. ---  In amerciament for the regrathing of the Kingis burgis; 1520 Stirling B. Rec. I. 7. ---  The Kingis consale; 1425 Acts II. ii/1. ---  Gif ony juge ... pas out of the Kyngis court wythoutyn leff; Ib. I. 57/2.  All crymes ... comittit within the jurisdictioun of the Marschall ... sould be decydit in the Kingis court; Ib. 346/2.  The Kings court vses not to cognosce ... sic privat pactions ... made in other courts nor his awin court; Skene Reg. Maj. i. 49 b.  Deforcement in poynding, and the pleyes of the crowne, perteines to the Kings court allauerlie; Ib. 72.  The justice, quhilk is called the King's court, from which ther wes no appealling, as being supreame; Hope Major Pract. II. 1. ---  For sic falset pertenys to the Kyngis croune; Acts I. 34/2. ---  Makand him ... kepar of the Kingis cun3e irnis; 1527 Reg. Privy S. I. 567/1. ---  All thai that byis corne in the Kingis hawyn; Acts I. 387/2. ---  The Sheriff ... may raise the Kings horn ... upon the murder; Mackenzie Laws & C. i. xi. 22 (1699) 70. ---  The bail3eis of the sade burgh ... to answere at the Kingis instance apone the non execucione of thare office; 1497 Acta Conc. II. 87.  [The woman's] subsequent consent sall not be anie defence to the ravischer to frie him fra penaltie ... at the Kyingis instance; 1612 Aberd. Council Lett. I. 115. ---  The taking oute of twa persouns furthe of the Kingis irnis put in be the schereif; 1476 Acta Aud. 49/1. ---  All barouns takis the Kingis lawis into the Kingis court befor the justice and schereff; Acts I. 347/2.  That all ... the Kingis liegis ... leif ... vndir the Kingis lawis & statutis of this realme alanerly; 1425 Ib. II. 9/1.  [Certain malefactors] quhilk eschapit fra him and war fra the Kingis lawis; 1500 Reg. Privy S. I. 84/1. ---  Quha hes waged ... battell betwixt them, may not be reconcealed without the King's licence; Skene Reg. Maj. Table s.v. King. ---  The ferd tym he sall be in the Kyngis mercy of lyff and of membrys; Acts I. 34/2.  Kings mercie is not extended to the tynsell of ... heretage; Skene Reg. Maj. Table s.v. King. ---  [The castellayne] sall ask gif ony suylk [swine or poultry] be thar to sell to the Kyngis myster; Acts I. 41/2. ---  We cursis ... all clypparis of the Kyngis monee vythovt the Kyngis consent; c 1500 Rathen Manual 27/1. ---  [The sheriff to] folow the said trespassouris in the Kingis name; 1436 Acts II. 23/2.  Gif ony man happinis to distroubill ony court within this realme, fensit in the Kingis name; Balfour Pract. 279.  Eftir sindrie ... oppressionis done be him, in the Kingis name and authoritie; Bisset I. 33/23.  To open the Liggett in the Kings name, being a patent Kings Street; 1679 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Processes No. 312.  [He] cryed Farts in the Kings name; Ib. ---  The Kingis parliamentis & general consallis; 1449 Acts II. 36/2. ---  It wylbe your grace plesour to caus me be adwerteissit be the [sc. French] Keyngis post of your gud mynd; 1551 Corr. M. Lorraine 349. ---  That every pundler sall be justed and maid equall with the Kings pundler; 1628 Kirkwall Sheriff Ct. Act Bk. 13 b. ---  Gif thair be ony resettis ... the Kingis rebellis; 1509 Justiciary Rec. (Reg. H.) II. 144. ---  Ane writing extract ... furth of the Kingis register; 1498-9 Acta Conc. II. 305. ---  He ... tuke him to the Kingis remissione tharefore; 1496-7 Ib. 56. ---  The namys togiddir with the crymez of trespassouris suld be 3erelie insert in the Kingis rollis; Boece ix. i. 285. ---  Nane of the lieges sould breake the Kings saif conduct; Skene Reg. Maj. ii. 136. ---  That letters pas under the Kingis signet til the burowis of Abirdene and Perth; 1498 Acta Conc. II. 211. ---  Ilk man sal kepe ... the Kyngis trewis; 1398 Slater Early Sc. Texts No. 38. ---  For bering ... rachteris ... to the Kingis Werk; 1501 Treas. Acc. II. 84.  Daillis ... to the Kings Wark; 1554-5 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 299.  Gif any man is found within the Kings land without ane maister ... [he is to be] keeped ... to the Kings wark, vntill he find ... ane maister; Skene Reg. Maj. ii. 37. ---  Thai ... Put thame in to the Kyngys will; Wynt. vii. 2873.  His gudis salbe confyskyt to the King and his life at the Kingis will; 1457 Acts II. 48/2.  The defender ... must presently find caution to satisfie the Kings will; Mackenzie Laws & C. ii. xxx. 4. (1699) 281. b (1)  The Strand on the sowth and the commoun Kingis calsay on the north partis; 1569 Canongate Ct. Bk. 15.  Quhen ony ... occupies the Kingis calsay, or commoun gaite; Skene Verb. S. s.v. Purprestvre. (2)  [The] tenement liand betuex ... the land of Andro Murray ... and the common Kingis gait; 1497-8 Acta Conc. II. 118.  [Forbidden] to mak ony sic croiffis [of swine] in deformite of the Kings gait; 1530 Aberd. B. Rec. I. xxxix.  [They] sall lewe the passage on the hie Kingis gait lik as it is now; 1562 Stirling B. Rec. I. 211.  The inlands of the aires of Gilbert Hervie at the south and the Kinges comone gaitt at the north; 1663 Rec. Marischal Coll. I. 283. (3)  Schawand that the sade land was na way biggit upone the Kingis common strete; 1497 Acta Conc. II. 85.  [Land] liand avestaill the said brucht upone the northt part of the Kyngis streit; 1523 Selkirk B. Ct. fol. 106 b.  The commoun Kingis streit on the north; 1572 Prot. Bk. A. Lawson MS. 17 b.  To remoue all vther impedimentis maid ... in the Kingis hie streittis; 1580 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 164.  That the haill inhabitants ... keep ther dunghills ... aff the Kings streit; 1671 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. MS. 3 May.  My tennement of land ... lyand within the burgh of Irving upon the eist syde of the Kings hie streit; 1688 Irvine Deeds MS. June 8. (4)  The commoun Kingis way on the sowth parte; 1569 Canongate Ct. Bk. 72.  Ane man passand be the Kings hie way; Skene Reg. Maj. ii. 41 b.  The Kings hie way sould not be occupied be the horse; Ib. 42.  And it is to wit, that the Kings way, or get, sould conteine in brede fourtene foote; in the quhilk na damnage nor violence sould be done to any man; Ib. c.  Sindrie persones that ... be the Kingis aduocates vpoun their information raisis criminall letteris; 1579 Acts (1597) ii. 37. ---  Sua that na complaynt cum to the Kyngis chalmerlane; Acts I. 42/2. ---  To the Kingis chancellare the fee of the grete sele; Ib. 345/2. ---  [Persons] quhilkis salbe the Kingis commissioneris and iustices in the furtherance of iustice, peax and quietnes; 1587 Ib. III. 459/2. ---  The Kingis Comptrollar; Balfour Pract. 135. ---  For the fee of the Kingis constable x li.; Acts I. 346/2.  Andro Lord Gray, the Kingis Constable in that part; 1496 Acta Conc. II. 17. ---  For Kingis counsalouris ... Thai dreid for manly indignacioun; Contempl. Sinn. 491. ---  All the trespasis done vnder the wand of the Kingis merschell and constable; Acts I. 346/2. ---  The Kyngys offycerys ... As chawncelare, chawmyrlane, and justis; Wynt. vii. 3195.  The Kingis officiars makand warning to private justice courts [etc.]; 1525 Acts II. 297/2.  The King's officiars, sic as schirefs, justitiars; Skene Reg. Maj. i. 157. ---  Bot gif the Kingis schireff or his seriand be thar; Acts I. 375/2.  That pur commonys ar ... opprest be the Kingis schirefs, constablis and thair ministeris, in tymis of faris; 1456 Ib. II. 46/2.  Ormond pursewant, schiref of the Kingis in that part; 1496-7 Acta Conc. II. 68. ---  I, Johnne Bennet, Kingis sergeand of the scherefdome of Peblis; 1509-10 Peebles B. Rec. I. 42.
    6. In other special combinations.
    Kingis seicknes, eiuell (= Eng. King's Evil, scrofula), Kingis Evin, appar., the Eve of the King of Bean's day, i.e. of Uphaliday, king's foot (of eleven and a half inches), kingis gray (cloth), King's language, peice, pear (cf. e.m.E. king peare (1585) `with a very little stalke'). The Kingis ell, the belt of Orion: see ELL n. 2. The Kingis keyis, see KEY n. 1 b. ---  We saw the royall ceremonie of tuiching some diseased childrein for hailling off sume of the escrolles, commonly callit the Kingis seicknes; Melvill 657.  The Kings ma'tie ... healte 100 persons of the cruelles, or Kings eiuell; Balfour Ann. IV. 360. ---  Upoun the Kinges evin, when French men commonlie use to drynk liberallie; Knox I. 230. ---  Ane yaird lyand besouth the said halfe land surrounded with ane dyik and march exceptand fourtein kings foot towards the toun wall quhilk foote contening eleven inches and ane halfe; 1657 Moses Bundles, Misc. P. MS. (Edinb. City Chambers), Bundle 39, No. 1642. ---  Tuell elnes inglis claith callit kingis gray at iiij li. the elne; 1610 Edinb. Test. MS. XLVI. 98 b. ---  Your courteoures ... on a new conceat of finnes sum tymes spilt (as thy cal it) the King's language; Hume Orthog. 2. ---  Foure peices of gold calit the Kingis peices quhilkis are ane merk peices of King James the Fyftis cun3e price of the peice iiij merkis; 1586 Edinb. Test. XVI. 214 b.  To George Cathcart for 2 bargamond imps and 1 of the kings pear in the Weims [£1/19/0]; 1693 Foulis Acc. Bk. 152.
    7. a. Of attire: Proper for a king, royal. b. Of silk thread, gloves, ale: Appar., of royal or excellent quality or make, of the finest sort. a.  [King Henry,] Hys body oure wes cled all hale In honest kyngys aparale; Wynt. vii. 1994.  Septyr [and] ryng and sandalys Browdyn welle on kyngys wys; Ib. 2000. b.  The fren3eis for the cover of the font [etc.] ... of the kingis silk; 1506-7 Treas. Acc. III. 272.  That thair be na derare aill sauld nor sax penneis the pynt, and that the samyn be kingis aill and werraye guid; 1574 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 25.  Tuentie dosan of playne gluvis, price of the pair iij s.; vij pair of kingis gluvis, price thairof xl s.; 1585 Edinb. Test. XIV. 184.