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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Layne, Lane, v. Also: lain(e. [ME. and e.m.E. (chiefly north. and north midl.) leyne (a 1300), layne, lain(e, ON. leyna conceal, keep secret. In the mod. dial., Sc. and north. Eng.Appar. rhyming only with words which orig. had the diphthong ai (as opposed to words with orig. ā as bane (bone), gane (gone), stane), as also at Leg. S. xxix. 135, Bann. MS. 141 a/19, 264 a/13 and other instances not noted below.]

tr. To conceal or be silent about (the truth, a fact etc.), to keep secret or suppress. Also b. absol., and c. in the infin. in passive sense, = to be concealed, undisclosed or undetected. d. Also in various verse tags, as (it is) nocht to layne, I bid nocht (for to) layne, I will not, do not lane.(a) 14.. Acts I. 357/2.
Thai sall swer the gret athe that thai sall thar of suth say and na suth layne [L. nec veritatem inde tacebunt] a1570-86 Maitl. F. cxxx. 110.
Sic luf I rid ȝow layne [: in vane] a1500 Sir Eger 340.
And though I wist, I could it lain [: fraine] 1605-6 Welsh Forty-eight Serm. 441.
He has told all his counsel to thee, and has lained nothing from thee 1609 Skene Reg. Maj. i. 13.
The assisours sall sweare, that … they sall nocht laine nor conceale the trueth wittinglie(b) 15.. Edinb. Univ. MS. La.iv.6.
[Sic ma]tteris my lord wald nocht be lanit [: sanit] ?a1500 Steel Roy Robert 105.
That this is suth thow may nocht lane [: plane] c1500-c1512 Dunb. xlii. 95.
Fals Invy that no thing lanis [: remanis] a1500 K. Hart 23.
Thay him teichit All lustis for to lane and vnderly Ib. 179. 1535 Stewart 15848.
Syne thai wer sworne to keip counsall and lane Ib. 40113.
All this he schew … and in nothing wald lane, How Makcobey bayth wyfe and barnis had slane Ib. 44470.
He maid promit, the quhilk he wald nocht lane, To tak his part Ib. 58943. c1550 Rolland Ct. Venus iii. 418.
And all this come throw luif inordinat The xj cheptour of Regum will not lane [: plane] Ib. iv. 366. Id. Seven S. 6834. 1573 Davidson Sat. P. xl. 315.
This propheit plane … Quha Godis reuelit will wald neuer lane c1600 Montg. Suppl. vii. 65.
My paneis to lane war wane but remedieb. a 1510 Aberd. Univ. Review XXXVI. i. 51.
[Women] mak ane craft to lee and lane a1568 Scott iv. 23.
Ouirlait is till lament, Fra belly dow not lane [: agane]c. 1543 Corr. M. Lorraine 43.
My lord sall understand cleirlie … that my lord Somervales sending to Ingland was nocht to lane for he was commandit to schaw the governour hes passage 1659 Melrose Reg. Rec. I. 217.
[Helen Hair intromitted with] alsmuch lyning yairne as wald laned (1) a1400 Leg. S. xi. 162.
We are Hebreis, nocht to layne [: frane] Ib. xxix. 135. c1420 Wynt. viii. 3479.
Thare mony wes lwgyd noucht to layne [: slayne] c1450-2 Howlat 267.
Mony allegiance leile, in leid nocht to layne [B. lane] it [: franyt, paynit, remanyt] Ib. 852. a1500 Gol. & Gaw. 1031.
Gif thou luffis thi life, lelely noght to layne, Yeld me thi bright brand a1500 K. Hart 13.
He … never had experience in to payne, Bot alway in to lyking, nocht to layne(2) a1400 Leg. S. xvi. 603.
Al is suthte, nocht is to lane, That thou sad of the Magdelane ?1438 Alex. ii. 2350.
The Bauderane … said, Schir King, it is nocht to lane [: agane], etc. Ib. 2889.
To-morne airly, is nocht to lane, Clarus four sonnes sall mak ane trane(3) c1420 Wynt. v. 1138 (W).
Schir Emperour, ‘I bid nocht layne [: agane], etc.’ a1500 Rauf C. 313.
Quhat is thy richt name? … Wymond of the Wardrop, I bid not to lane [: plane] 1535 Stewart 9532. Ib. 29509, etc.
I bid nocht for to lane a1568 Scott xxiii. 38.
And sen my hairt is fre, I bid not for to lane [: agane], I sall [etc.] 15.. Black Bk. Taymouth 156.
Quod thai, ‘In guid faith we byde not for to lane [: slane, fane], etc.’(4) 1573 Davidson Sat. P. xl. 241.
This is thair lote oftymes, I will not lane [: plane] a1605 Montg. Misc. P. viii. 27.
[We] lost our tyme in love, I will not lane [: agane](5) a1500 Sir Eger 1226.
Lady, I do not lane, He that it bure, brought it again