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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1475-1606, 1665
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Bend, n.2 Also: benne. [ME. bende, bend, OE. bend, coalescing with OF. bende.]
1. A bend in heraldry. c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace ix. 114.
A bar off blew in till his schenand scheild, A bend off greyn desyren ay the feild a1586 Lindsay MS. 35.
Bend is nemmit in tua maneris, sum callis it ane scrip and vtheris callis it bend
2. A band worn on some part of the body, or as an attachment or ornament of a head-dress, etc. 1513 Doug. ii. ii. 138.
Abowt my heide a garland or a bend 1513 Ib. iii. ii. 25.
The kyng … with bendis baith and haly lawrer crown Set on his hed 1548 Treasurer's Accounts IX. 224.
Foure elnis taffate of corde to be ane bend to my lord governour a1578 Pitsc. I. 174/13.
Ane band of men of weir … all clad in quhyt cloth and blak bendis thairon 1579 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 74.
To the young men quha raid to Striueling to the parliament … to mak thair bendis 1581 Burne Disput. 144.
His bendis of taffetie feschnit vith goldin ringis 1593 Edinburgh Testaments XXV. 192.
Sax bendis of jeit & silk wowin togidder 1603 Treasurer's Accounts MS. 261 b.
Tua elnis grene craip to be a bend [for the prince] 1606 Criminal Trials II. 508.
Ane blew bend of taffetie 1665 Irvine Mun. II. 91.
Whosoevir sould ding the samyn [papingo] doun sould be capitan, and have ane benne or scarff consisting of the value of twelff pundis Scotts or thairby
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