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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job xii. 18 The girdil of kingus he looside, and girdede with a corde the reenes [L. renes] of hem.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. 2819 (MED) Sche hath my wounded herte enoignt, My temples and my Reins also.

a1425 (a1382) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Exod. xii. 11 Ȝe shulen girde about ȝoure reynes [L. renes], and ȝe schulen haue shoon in ȝoure feet.

a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) 7207 (MED) Thow requeryst..To be gyrt..With a gyrdel off ryhtwysnesse, Thy reynys strongly for to streyne.

a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 8087 (MED) Feble reines and heuy bones..makeþ him slepe for þe nones.

?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Ddiv ^v Gyrte thy raynes as a man.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries xiii. f. clxxviij These Palles, which..hange downe from the shoulders to the midde breast, and to the Reines of the backe, like a stoale.

1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia i. xiii. 83 Receiving a blowe with a Peece upon the reines of his backe.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 168 [The] Rock..bears the marks, as if a Body had been laid on the Back upon it, for the form of the Reins appear there.

1720 E. R. Experienc'd Farrier (ed. 4) 78 From the Reins of the Back to the Stones are four great Sinews.

1722 J. Toland Let. Feb. in Coll. Several Pieces (1726) II. 491 My old pains in my thighs, reins, and stomach, seiz'd me violently.

1753 Pocket Dict. Back, the hinder part of a man or beast from the shoulder to the reins.

1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision I. xx. 83 Each..seem'd to be revers'd At the neck-bone, so that the countenance Was from the reins averted.

1865 A. C. Swinburne In Time of Revol. in Poems & Ballads 27 They are girdled about the reins with a curse.

1944 W. H. Auden For Time Being iii. 103 Generations Of the unborn, all Are leaping for joy In your reins today.