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† ˈeightin, a. Obs.
Forms: 3 eȝten(e)de, ehtende, (Orm.) ehhtennde, 4 eyh-, eytand, -end, aighteden, agt-, aghtand(e, -end, aghten, achtande, aughtene, 5 heghten, auchtand, 6 egh-, eyȝ-, eyhtyn(e, eighytyn, auchtane, -in.
[The northern form of eighth; perh. of Scandinavian origin; cf. ON. (*ahtundi) áttundi; the intrusive n, due to the analogy of seventh (cf. ONorthumb. seofunða), occurs in OFris. achtunda.]
= eighth.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 87 On þe ehtende dai after þe childes burde, þe frend shopen þe child name. c1250Gen. & Ex. 2543 Ðe eȝtenede king amonaphis, Agenes ðis folc hatel is. a1300Cursor M. 9169 Þe eyhtand sibile bigan to rise. Ibid. 10573 Of decembre þe aghten dai Was sco geten. c1340Hampole Prose Tr. (1866) 11 The aughtene commandement es that ‘thou sall noghte bere false wyttnes agaynes thi neghteboure’. c1440Melayne 828 All solde come..By the heghten day at none. 1522Test. Ebor. (Surtees) V. 150, I will that my executrix..make an eghtyn day honestly for me. 1558Lyndesay Dreme 531 The sewint [is callit] Thronus, the auchtin, Cherubin.
b. Comb. † eightin-dele, -dole [lit. eighth part]: an obsolete measure of capacity.
(Wey in Promp. Parv. says ‘1/8 of a coom’ = 16 quarts; the haughendo, aghendole of Lancashire may be the same word, though identified with halvendeal by the editors of Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.), who quote conflicting explanations of it as ‘7 quarts’, ‘8 pounds’.)
1440Promp. Parv. 137 Eyȝtyndele, mesure. 1887Rogers Agric. & Prices V. 323 At Gawthorp..Shuttleworth pays 6d. for an eightendole. |