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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Wain, Wyn(e, Wie-one, n.¹ [? We adj. and Ane num. Also in the later dial. Or perhaps f. Wain v. to wean.] A child, a young person. — 1560 Treas. Acc. XI 27.
Item to pure wainis xxx s. 1624 Kinghorn Kirk S. 27.
To set up ane foirface to … his dask, to saue his wyfe and wynis fra being tred upon be these that gois in to the yll 1692 Presb. Eloq. (1693) 83.
A little thereafter he saw a little child … he said ‘Sit still little rogue [etc.] … ' O the glorious days of the gospel, the very wie-ones [1789 wee anes] were then so serious that they would [etc.]