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▪ I. † dain, n. Obs.
Also 5 deyne, dene, 6 daine, dayne, deane. Syncopated from dedain, disdain n.
1. Disdain, dislike, distrust.
a1400–50Alexander 1863 Þat ay has deyne [Dublin MS. dene] & dispite at dedis of litill. 1591Lyly Sappho v. i. 207 Which striketh a deepe daine of that which wee most desire.
2. The suffering or incurring of disdain; contumely, ignominy, reproach.
a1500MS. St. John's Coll. Oxon. No. 117 fol. 123 b (in Maskell Mon. Rit. III. 356), Thi beginning of thi lif, care and sorwe; thi fo[r]thliving, trauail, and dene, and disese. 15..Merline in Percy Folio I. 444 ‘Nay, certaine,’ said the old queane, ‘yee may it doe without deane.’
3. Repulsiveness of smell; ‘stink, noisome effluvia. Still used in this sense in the west of England’ (Nares).
(Quot. 1575 taken in this sense by Nares and Halliwell may belong to 2; 1601 may belong to dain adj.)
1575Mirr. Mag., Cordila, From bowres of heauenly hewe, to dennes of dayne. 1601Holland Pliny xi. liii, The breath of Lions hath a very strong deane and stinking smell with it [animae leonis virus grave]. 1825Britton Prov. Words in Beauties of Wiltsh. (E.D.S.), Dain, infectious effluvia. 1847–in Halliwell (Wilts).
▪ II. † dain, a. Obs. or dial. rare.
Also 6 daine, dane.
[a. OF. *deigne, Burg. doigne = F. digne worthy: cf. Chaucer's deyn under digne a.]
1. Haughty; reserved, distant; repellent. Sc.
c1500Dunbar Tua mariit Wemen 132 Than am I dangerus and dane and dour of my will. Ibid. 253 Thought I dour wes and dane, dispitois and bald. c1540Lyndesay Kitteis Conf. 6 Bot ȝit ane countenance he bure, Degeist, deuote, daine, and demure.
2. Repulsive, esp. in smell; stinking. Cf. digne a.
[1601cf. dain n. 3.] 1888Berkshire Gloss., Dain, tainted, putrid, bad-smelling.
▪ III. † dain, v. Obs.
Also 5 deyne, 6 dayne.
Syncopated form of dedain, disdain v.
a1400–50Alexander 4579 Owþir ȝe gesse at ȝe be gods..Or deynes with oure driȝtins for þat we þam dere hald. 1514Barclay Cyt. & Uplondyshm. (Percy Soc.) 6 Youthe dayneth counsayle, scornynge dyscrecyon. a1592Greene Alphonsus i. Wks. 226/1 She shall have scholars which will dain to be In any other Muse's company. Ibid. iii. 237/2; iv. 240/1.
▪ IV. dain(e
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