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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Barrane, Barane, a. Also: barayn, -an, -en; bairane; barraigne, -an, -en, -on. [ME. bar(r)ayn(e, -eyn(e, barain, baraigne, etc., OF. baraine, baraigne, of uncertain origin.] Barren, in various senses, lit. and fig.(1) a1400 Leg. S. xxxii. 348 (thai that had na barne bot barane ware); xxxvi. 166 (Elizabeth, tho scho wes baren, bare Iohn). c1552 Lynd. Mon. 4012 (the baren papis). 1589 Reg. Privy C. IV. 427 (as gif I wer a barrane stok). 1604 Misc. Hist. Soc. II. 246 (as to my schiep … if she be bairane).(2) 1461 Liber Plusc. 397 (a barane land). a1500 Seven S. 323 (this pynull did grow, bot all barane it was). 1530 Lynd. Test. Pap. 58 (no thyng bot barrane stok and stone). 1549 Compl. 20/1 (no thyng bot barrane feildis); 70/2 (the eird vas becum barran). 1567 G. Ball. 109 (the barrane bra). 1578 Reg. Privy C. III. 79 (Scotland is verray barrane). a1570-86 Maitl. F. lxxxix. 13 (barran treis). c1600 Montg. Suppl. 211/41 (the barrane ground).(3) a1500 Henr. III. 163/44 (of vertew barran and denude). c1475 Wall. xi. 1452 (baran of eloquens).
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