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Win, Wyn(e, Wend, n.¹ [ME and e.m.E. win (c1200), winn (Orm), winne (Layamon), wynne (c1440), OE win(n.]

1. Wealth, possessions, goods.For warldis, (wardlie) win, see Win n.² a1400 Leg. S. xlvi 14.
Til a man … with mykil wyne, Scho ves giffine 1401 Aberd. B. Rec. I 380.
The lord of Keth arestit yhur wyn and yhur oxin 1460 Hay Alex. 16464.
The balȝe ansured sayand that I forfend That I ane vtheris mannis wyn suld spend 1480 Macleod P. MS (Reg. H.).
The quhilkis some of ane hundretht markis to be payt … of thair awine propir guidis and wynis and nocht of na purches

2. Gain, profit, income. Also proverb. Also wrang(us) win, ill-gotten gain.(1) a1500 Bernardus 180.
Ryche aray … Dois oft tymis skath … And thé in hart thar-for tha hewy ber. Eftyr thi wyne with worschipe clethyng wer c1500-c1512 Dunb. (STS) xvii 16.
Thir merchantis takis vnlesum win 1540 Lynd. Sat. 3507 (Ch.).
Thay tyne thir steps, all thay quha ever did sin In pryde, invy, in ire, and lecherie, In covetice, or ony extreme win 1560 Rolland Seven S. Prol. 36.
At thir foursum asking leif … Me for to leir ane lessoun or a lyne Of thair prettick to me ane point propyne. They said, ‘Go to, schaw sum experience’ And I thairfoir to thame promeist the wyne 1677 Stitchill Baron Ct. 83.
Complaint … be Bessie Turnbull … that … the defenders bestiall did eat and destroy to the said compleiner … thrie fulls of oats … the pundler … could not clear the samyn neither could the persewer prove the eatting therof but declared that the said Robert Lamb his grass lay next ajacent to the said Bessie Turnbull her cornes. And therfor alledged the ajacent grass should keip the wins … every persones grass … and possessoirs therof should keip their neighbours ajacent wins without it be proven that other beasts did eat the samyne(b) 1597 Kirkcaldy B. Rec. 147.
Ordanis [blank] pyper quhom they haiff sett to be comoun pyper for ane ȝeir to the toun, to haiff ane freman, viz., xx li. for his fie, and his wend of waigis of the honest men in the tounproverb. a1628 Carmichael Prov. No. 1161.
Manie wives win is in the row ye hap in(2) a1500 Henr. Prayer 79.
Of this mischeif quha may releif ws ocht For wrangus win, bot thow our sin oursyle? a1500 Prestis of Peblis 619.
Quhan thay ar full of sic wrang win Thay get thair leif and hungryar cums in a1568 Bann. MS 74a/4.
The stait and the ordour of haly kirk haif in cure preis nocht till injure for ony vrang win a1570-86 Maitl. F. 251/30.
Confes the clein restoir all wrangis win For of this warld thow man pas hyn and wend