† linv.
Obsolete.
1.
a. intransitive. To cease, leave off; desist from (something; in Old English const. dative); also const. to with infinitive. Of the wind: To drop, lull. Also as a command, ‘Leave off!’ ‘Let go!’
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)]
i-swikec893
swikec897
atwindc1000
linOE
studegieOE
stintc1175
letc1200
stuttea1225
leavec1225
astint1250
doc1300
finec1300
blina1325
cease1330
stable1377
resta1382
ho1390
to say or cry ho1390
resta1398
astartc1400
discontinuec1425
surcease1428
to let offc1450
resista1475
finish1490
to lay a straw?a1505
to give over1526
succease1551
to put (also pack) up one's pipes1556
end1557
to stay (one's own or another's) hand1560
stick1574
stay1576
to draw bridle1577
to draw rein1577
to set down one's rest1589
overgive1592
absist1614
subsista1639
beholdc1650
unbridle1653
to knock offa1657
acquiesce1659
to set (up) one's rest1663
sista1676
stop1689
to draw rein1725
subside1734
remit1765
to let up1787
to wind (up) one's pirna1835
to cry crack1888
to shut off1896
to pack in1906
to close down1921
to pack up1925
to sign off1929
the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)]
aswikec975
linOE
beleavec1175
forletc1175
i-swikec1175
restc1175
stutte?c1225
lina1300
blinc1314
to give overc1325
to do wayc1350
stintc1366
finisha1375
leavea1375
yleavec1380
to leave offa1382
refuse1389
ceasec1410
resigna1413
respite?a1439
relinquish1454
surcease1464
discontinue1474
unfill1486
supersede1499
desist1509
to have ado?1515
stop1525
to lay aside1530
stay1538
quata1614
to lay away1628
sist1635
quita1642
to throw up1645
to lay by1709
to come off1715
unbuckle1736
peter1753
to knock off1767
stash1794
estop1796
stow1806
cheese1811
to chuck itc1879
douse1887
nark1889
to stop off1891
stay1894
sling1902
can1906
to lay off1908
to pack in1934
to pack up1934
to turn in1938
to break down1941
to tie a can to (or on)1942
to jack in1948
to wrap it up1949
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > fine weather > [verb (intransitive)] > become calm (of weather or the elements)
calm1399
falla1400
lown?a1600
to fall calm1601
serenify1612
subside1680
lin1693
flat1748
flatten1748
lull1808
to go down1873
OE Beowulf 1478 Gif ic æt þearfe þinre scolde aldre linnan.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 67 For ure fond nefre ne linnen for to fonden us mid sunnen.
a1225 Leg. Kath. 1717 Þe neauer ne linneð nowðer ne lesseð, ah leaseð aa mare.
a1300 K. Horn 354 Rymenhild ȝef he cuþe Gan lynne wiþ hire Muþe.
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 38 Þat never þai no lan Þe pouer to wirche wo.
1539 Bible (Great) Which thyng [i.e. reading the Bible at home] also I neuer lynne to beate into the eares of them that bene my famyliers.
1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Clifford i Couer fire, and it wil neuer linne.
1560 in J. Nichols Progresses Queen Elizabeth III. 473 My lippes shall never lenne To power thye prayses to my penne.
1590 R. Greene Mourning Garment 55 All things did from their weary labour linne.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 315 If one pluck off the wings from a drone, and put him again within the hiue, he will neuer lin vntill he haue done the like by all the rest of the same kind.
a1618 J. Sylvester in Z. Boyd Garden of Zion (1644) I. 26 For th' Uncle and the Nephew never lin, Till out of Canaan they have chec't them clean.
1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes Intermean iv. 12 in Wks. II Set a beggar on horse-backe, hee'll neuer linne till hee be a gallop.
1652 C. B. Stapylton tr. Herodian Imperiall Hist. ii. 85 On both sides to Assayle they never lin.
a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 96 Pareing time and all the year, Is one to them they never lein [rhyme keen].
1693 R. Lyde True Acct. Retaking of Ship 23 At two in the Afternoon, the wind was at N.N.W. and Lynn'd a little.
1693 R. Lyde True Acct. Retaking of Ship 25 I bore away..thinking to go in over the Bar in the Morning tide, but by five the Wind Lin'd.
1710 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 31 Dec. (1948) I. 145 When the year with MD 'gins, It without MD never lins. (These proverbs have always old words in them; lins is leaves off.)]
1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd iv. i. 59 Let gang your Grips, fy Madge! howt Bauldy leen [rhyme seen].
b. Misused for: To fail, omit.
ΚΠ
a1721 M. Prior Wandering Pilgrim in Misc. Wks. (1740) II. 20 They seldom miss to bake and brew, Or lin to break their fast.
2.
a. transitive. To cease from, leave off, discontinue.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)]
aswikec975
linOE
beleavec1175
forletc1175
i-swikec1175
restc1175
stutte?c1225
lina1300
blinc1314
to give overc1325
to do wayc1350
stintc1366
finisha1375
leavea1375
yleavec1380
to leave offa1382
refuse1389
ceasec1410
resigna1413
respite?a1439
relinquish1454
surcease1464
discontinue1474
unfill1486
supersede1499
desist1509
to have ado?1515
stop1525
to lay aside1530
stay1538
quata1614
to lay away1628
sist1635
quita1642
to throw up1645
to lay by1709
to come off1715
unbuckle1736
peter1753
to knock off1767
stash1794
estop1796
stow1806
cheese1811
to chuck itc1879
douse1887
nark1889
to stop off1891
stay1894
sling1902
can1906
to lay off1908
to pack in1934
to pack up1934
to turn in1938
to break down1941
to tie a can to (or on)1942
to jack in1948
to wrap it up1949
a1300 K. Horn 319 Þi tale nu þu lynne, For Horn nis noȝt her-inne.
c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 558 Þe lavdabyll lyfe of lecherry let hur neuer lynne.
1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. L iv b Our Northern prikkers..sum hoopynge, sum whistelyng.. never linde these troublous..noyses all ye night long.
1610 Cruel Shrew 9 in Roxburghe Ballads (1871) I. 95 She never linnes her bauling Her tongue it is so loud.
b. with verbal noun as object, or intransitive with present participle as complement.
ΚΠ
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 5950 His leman lan neuer wepeing Aniȝt, when sche alon was.
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 Tim. i. f. iiiiv I was so cruell a persecutour, that I coulde neuer lynne doynge of vyolence.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 362 He [a horse] neuer lin flinging, till he cast his maister on the ground.
1608 T. Middleton Your Fiue Gallants sig. Bv A Ruby that neere lines blushing for the Party that pawnde it.
1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 1 We should never lin hammering out of our owne hearts, as it were out of a flint, the..sparkles of new miseries to our selves.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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