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Quotation dates: 1506, 1574-1660
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Ingȝo(u)n, Ingeo(u)n, n. Also: ingȝeo(u)n, ingy(e)o(u)n, ingyone; inȝeo(u)n; inȝone, inȝoin, inyon; angȝeoun; engȝeoun, enȝeoun.[Late ME. ynon (c 1460), e.m.E. ynion (1562), dial. varr. of ME. and e.m.E. onyon, unyon, etc., OF. oi(n)gnon. Cf. Unȝeo(u)n and Ingon.] An onion. Also attrib. with seid.(a) 1506 Treasurer's Accounts III. 129.
Ane pund ingȝoun seid 1574 Aberd. B. Rec. II. 20.
The apillis, ingyounis, and uther girnall gudis 1578 Inverness B. Rec. I. 261.
Four beddis ingyeonis, ane persell bed 1590 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 28.
For selling of thair ingyeouns in Leyth 1596 Brechin Testaments I. 146 b.
Tua pound … ingȝeoun seid 1596 Wedderb. Compt. Bk. 71.
Half a last of ingȝeonis 1660 Lanark B. Rec. 176.
Any sort of waires except … ingyones(b) 1613 Wedderb. Compt. Bk. 239.
Laidnit with ingeonis 1628 Rec. Univ. Aberd. 583.
Ingeounes iiij dusson(c) 1596 Criminal Trials I. 399.
To pas furth of hir said hous and by ane half barrell of inȝeounis(d) 1612 Brechin Testaments II. 209.
For inȝone seid xxx s. 1624 Ib. IV. 153.
Four barrallis Flanders inȝoins 1635–6 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 482.
To certane puir men for inyons was takin fra them for fear of the plage xxx li. ix s.(e) 1595 Aberd. B. Rec. II. 127.
Dyveris inhabitantis . . damnefeit in the bying fra merchandis . .of angȝeoun seid(f) 1593–4 Misc. Spald. C. V. 57.
At the bying … of the Fleming schip with salt, hoip, and enȝeounis 1595 Aberd. B. Rec. II. 127.
Bringeris hame of engȝeoun seid … sall report and bring hame a ticket of the merchand fra quhom he byes the said seid
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