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▪ I. † bain, a. (n.) and adv. Obs. exc. dial.|beɪn|
Forms: 4–5 bayn, 5 beyn, 5–6 bayne, 6–9 bane, 6–7 bain.
[a. ON. beinn straight, direct; also, ready to serve, hospitable.]
A. adj.
1. Ready, willing, inclined.
c1325E.E. Allit. P. C. 136 So bayn wer þay boþe two, his bone for to wyrk. c1440Morte Arth. (Roxb.) 104 To batayle be ye bayne. 1513Douglas æneis iii. ii. 58 To seik ȝour ald modir mak ȝou bane. c1550Turke & Gowin 109 in Furniv. Percy Folio I. 94, I will be att thy bidding baine. 1674Ray N. Countr. Wds. 4 Bain, Willing, Forward.
2. Supple, lithe, limber.
c1440Promp. Parv. 29 Beyn or plyaunte, Flexibilis. 1565Golding Ovid's Met. iii. (1593) 77 And wantonly they writh..among the waves their bodies baine and lyth. 1674Ray S. & E. Countr. Wds. 59 Bain, Lithe, limber-joynted.
3. Direct; near, short. north. dial. [Cf. ON. ‘beinstr vegr straightest, shortest way,’ Vigfusson.]
1864Atkinson Whitby Gloss., Banest, nearest, ‘That way 's the banest.’ 1864T. Clarke in Kendal Merc. 30 Jan. (Westm. dial.), A swind mi ways t' banest geeat ower t' fell.
B. quasi-n. A ready or willing one.
c1460Towneley Myst. 82 He has bene sene agane, The buxumnes of his bane [respexit humilitatem ancillæ suæ].
C. as adv.
1. Readily, willingly.
c1325E.E. Allit. P. B. 1511 Ful bayn birlen þise oþer. c1450Gaw. & Gologras i. vi, The berne besely and bane blenkit hym about. 1513Douglas æneis v. Prol. 58 Byand byssely, and bane [v.r. bayne], buge, beuir, & bice.
2. Conveniently near, ‘handy.’ north. dial.
a1700Anc. Poems, Ball., etc. (1846) 215 Bane ta Claapan town-gate lived an oud Yorkshire tike. 1824Craven Dial. i. 11 We're vara bane tot' beck.
▪ II. † bain, n. Obs.
Forms: 5–6 baygne, 5–7 bayne, baine, 6–7 bane, bain.
[a. F. bain (= Pr. banh, It. bagno, Sp. baño):—L. balneum bath.]
1. A quantity of water or other liquid placed in a suitable receptacle, in which one may bathe.
1475Caxton Jason 105 b, His lady..had made redy a right fayr baygne. 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits xv. (1596) 284 The baigne must consist of water fresh and warme. 1614Chapman Odyss. x. 567 My men, In Circes house, were all, in several bain, Studiously sweeten'd. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. 306 [They] had caused a bane of warmed oyle to be provided for him.
fig.1563Myrr. for Mag. Induct. lxvii, And bathed him in the bayne Of his sonnes blud before the altare slayne.
b. The vessel in which this water is held.
1491Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de W.) ii. 273 a/1 He axed of hym yf he had ony bayne wherin he myghte wasshe hym. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cccciv. 702 The cradell wherein the erle was kept..and a fayre bayne wherein he was wont to be bayned. 1543Recorde Gr. Arts (1640) 400 He chanced to enter into a Baine full of water to wash him.
c. abstractly, An act of bathing, a bath.
1483Caxton Esope 2 b, Chargyng hym to kepe them tyl he..retourned fro his bayne. 1563B. Googe Eglogs (Arb.) 116 Pryncely Nymphes accompanyed Diana in her Baynes.
2. A room or building fitted up for bathing, having hot baths, etc.; a public bath; = bagnio 1.
1494Fabyan v. cxxv. 106 Whan he came out of his stewe or bayne. 1530Palsgr. 182 Vnes estevues, a hote house or a bayne. 1540R. Hyrde Vives' Instr. Chr. Wom. (1592) U iij, That rude and uncomly manner..that men and their wives shal wash both together in one bane. 1606Holland Sueton. 216 He passed through a crosse lane to the Baines for to bath. 1693W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. 197 Bain or Bath, Balneum.
3. A spring of hot or medicinal water.
1538Leland Itin. II. 66 The Colour of the Water of the Baynes is as it were a depe Blew Se Water. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 557 Buxton, that of great name shalt be for hote and holsome baine. 1655Digges Compl. Ambass. 136 Gone to Arragon, to certain Baynes there, for her health.
4. in pl. Stews; = bagnio n. 3.
1541Elyot Image Gov. (1549) 6 In common baines and bordell houses. 1599Bp. Hall Sat. vi. i. 27 As pure as olde Labulla from the baynes.
5. Chem. An apparatus for heating through the medium of water, sand, etc., more gradually than by direct exposure to fire. Cf. bath.
1477Norton Ord. Alch. v. in Ashm. (1652) 62 Baines maie helpe and cause also destruction. 1657W. Coles Adam in Eden xxxvi, It has been bathed well in the bain or stove.
6. Comb., as bain keeper.
1569J. Sandford Agrippa's Van. Artes 107 b, Likewise Barbars, Bainekepers, and Shepherdes. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 174 (R.) Taking no pleasure nor delight in the world..no more than the bain-keeper's poor asse.
▪ III. † bain, v. Obs.
Forms: 5 baygne, 5–6 bayn(e, 7 baigne, 6–7 bain(e.
[a. F. baigne-r (= Pr. banhar, Sp. bañar, It. bagnare):—L. balneāre, f. balneum bath.]
1. trans. and refl. To bathe or wash; to drench.
1398Trevisa Barth De P.R. vi. x. (1495) 195 The myd⁓wyfe..baynyth hym with salte and hony to comforte his lymmes. 1474Caxton Chesse ii. iv. 32 Whan the knyhtes ben maad they ben bayned or bathed. 1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1619) 50 John the Apostle..to baine himself, entred into a bath. 1602Carew Cornwall 108 b, To baigne them..with a worse perfume.
b. fig. or rhet.
1491Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de W.) i. lxvi. 115 a/2 His body was alle bayned and bydewed in teres and water. 1557Earl of Surrey in Tottell Misc. (Arb.) 5 Salt teares doe bayne my brest. a1652J. Vicars in Farr S.P. (1848) 124 Haile-stones he rained, And with feirce flames of fire them bained.
2. intr. (for refl.) To bathe oneself. lit. and fig.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 164/4 Ne neuer rasour touched his heed ne he neuer baygned. c1500Love Song in Halliwell Nugæ Poet. 68 In gladnesse I swym and baine. 1573Twyne æneid. xi. K k j b, The launce..in virgins blood doth bayne.
▪ IV. bain
obs. form of bane; north. dial. f. bone. |