† knave-bairn Sc. and north. Obs.
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| a 1300 Cursor M. 2668 Do your knauebarns to circumces. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xii. (Mathias) 31 Gyf I consawyt haf þis nycht a knafe barne. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. vii. xiii. 115 Þe Erlys awyn wyf wes lychtare Of a Knaive Barne. a 1800 Tam-a-Line in Child Ballads (1857) I. 366 If it be a knave bairn, He's heir o' a' my land. 1815 Scott Guy M. xi, He tell'd the Laird that the Evil One wad have power over the knave-bairn. |