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Orang(e, -eng(e, -ing(e, n. and a. Also: oranje, -inche, orrange, -enge, or(r)iange, -ienge, oireange, organege; adj. pl. also orangais. Also Aurange. [ME. and e.m.E. orenge (14th c.), orange (c 1425), oronge (Prompt. Parv.), oringe (1598), ore(n)che (16th c.), or(r)endge, OF. orenge (13th c.), orange.Earlier Appil orange. Cf. also Orenȝe.]

A. n. 1. The fruit, the orange.(a) 1541 Treas. Acc. VII. 465.
xiiij pund wecht orangeis, cannell, and clowis 1611 Melvill Dream 3/12 in Fugitive Poetry II.
A huckstar's stools with oranjes & flowrs 1612 Bk. Rates (Halyb.) 312.
Dry oranges lemmones and barbassett candeit the pund xxx s. 1669 Acts VII. 560/1. 1714 Household Bk. Gr. Baillie 90.(b) 1540 Misc. Hist. Soc. X. 41.
Orengeys 1597 Bk. Rates 8.
Orengis 1607 Misc. Maitl. C. I. 170.
Orenges 1615 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS. 412/2.
At supper … apillis ii s., four orengis ii s.(c) 1570-3 Bann. Trans. 38.
He brought some oringes, some reasinges [etc.] 1664 Household Bks. Archb. Sharp (ed.) 47. 1675 Stirling Comm. Good MS. 92.
Six pund oringeis at 36 s. per pund(d) 1663–6 Household Bks. Archb. Sharp (ed.) 44.
Sugar resines many organeges and a limon

b. coll. as the designation of a confection made from oranges. 1539 Treas. Acc. VII. 184.
xij pundis of clow, cannell and orrenge 1591 Edinb. Test. XXIII. 266 b.
xx dosone of buistis of confectioun of ginger, clowis, oreng

c. Attrib. and comb.Also Orange-appil(l n. 1664 Misc. Maitl. C. II. 510.
For orange flower watter to my lord 1678 Stirling Comm. Good MS. 128.
8 pund weight of cordeciderin & confected oringe shells at 40 s. per pund 1679 Ib. 129 b. 1683–4 Stirling B. Rec. III. 325.
Ane pound of confected limmens and orrange skines 1704 Jervise Epitaphs & Inscriptions I. 383/2.
To James Guthrie for … orange pill 1714 Household Bk. Gr. Baillie 90.
For 30 dusone oranges … out of which I had 8 gallons orange wine

2. The colour orange.In the Montg. quot. appar. as an emblem of forsaken or rejected love. 1591 Crim. Trials I. ii. 254.
Fyve clewis of sindrie culloures of worsett as of blak, reid, orange, yallow and blew a1605 Montg. Misc. P. xxiv. 66.
O wareit orange, willed me to weir, O wofull absence, ordande me for ay 1632 Inv. Newark 2 a.
With nyn scoir of ellis lugit lace of blew and orriange

b. Also comb. with -cullourit. 1596 Edinb. Test. XXIX. 321.
Sevin quarteris orrenge cullourit claytht at iij li. the elne 1650 Sc. Ant. IV. 28.
Ane orang colourd harb

B. adj. Orange in colour.(a) 1537 Treas. Acc. VI. 331.
To be the Kingis grace gartanis [etc.] … vij elne and ane half orangais taffatys 1561 Inv. Q. Mary 33. 1582 Treas. Acc. MS. 40 b.
Spanis orange taffetye to lyne the buist and the putchis 1589 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. viii. 105.
Ane ell of orang figoret taffaty to be slevis 1605 Tailor's Acc. Bk. A. 38.
Payit for a pair of orang pantenes, xxx s. 1640 Black Bk. Taymouth 349.
Pasmentit with greine and orange silk laice(b) 1621 Edinb. Test. LI. 91.
Ane waskeine of greine and orenge taffitie(c) 1596 Edinb. Test. XXIX. 295 b.
Sex elneis & ane half oringe Spaneis taffetie at v li. x s. the elne 1597 Ib. XXX. 158 b.
Oringe satene 1615 Ib. XLVIII. 214.
Thretteine pair of wesching orinche topis at sexteine schillingis the pair 1619 Ib. L. 216.
Ane orinche cannobie 1635 Haddington Corr. 301.
Ane stand of stuff oring courtenes(d) c 1631 Tailor's Acc. Bk. B. 21 b.
For ane droipe of oireange silk to shew it with, is ij s. 1649 Edinb. Test. LXIV. 256 b.
Ane orienge taffetie pitticoat 1651 Ib. LXV. 175.
Ane steik of oriange camlet

b. In Edinburgh, as the distinguishing colour of a company of militia. — 1674 Edinb. B. Rec. X. 197.
Capitaine Fyfe to be capitain of the orange company being the first company of the cittie 1678 Ib. 353.
Captan Patoun to be captan of the orange colours and moderator of the captanes

c. comb. in orange-tannie (= orange-tawny, yellowish brown) (e.m.E. (Shakesp.) oreng(e-tawny). — 1629 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. III. 393.
The said baronnets … to weare … ane orange tannie silk ribban