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ˈspaning, vbl. n. north. and Sc.
[f. spane v.]
The action of weaning, suspending, etc.
c1440Promp. Parv. 467/1 Spanynge, or wenynge of chylder, ablactacio. c1440Alph. Tales 23 When þe childe was att spanyng, þis brewster doghter broght it vnto hym & lefte it with hym. 1516Burgh Rec. Edinburgh (1869) I. 164 Vnder the payne of spayning fra the occupatioun for yeir and day. 1529Ibid. (1871) II. 6 [For] the thrid falt, spanyng of thar operatione. 1565J. Knox Sermon 24 b, This weaning (or spaning as we terme it) from worldly pleasure, is a thing straunge to the flesh. 1653in Laing Lindores Abbey (1876) 224 Took as weill wt the spaining..as any bairne could doe. 1898E. W. Hamilton Mawkin ix. 107 The spaning of the lambs was by with.
b. attrib., as spaning-lamb, spaning-time; spaning brash, weaning-brash; also transf., a disease which attacks corn in the early stages of its growth.
1416–7Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 317 Pro spanyng lambes. 1447Ibid. 319 Cum ij spanynglamez et j Antonlam. 1549York Wills (Surtees) VI. 296 To..my servaunte, one spaninge quie calf. 1562Will of Benson (Somerset Ho.), A lamb at spanyng tyme. 1582Durham Wills (Surtees) II. 58, xx lambes, to be delivered the next spaninge tyme after my deathe. 1721Ramsay Richy & Sandy 40 At spaining time, or at our Lambmass feast. 1828Moir Mansie Wauch xxiii, All the dunts and tumbles of infancy—to say nothing of the spaining-brash and the teeth-cutting. |