▪ I. cunye, cunzie, n. Sc.
(ˈk{smY}njiː, ˈk{smY}nɪ)
Also cun-, cuin-, -ȝe, -ȝee, -ȝey, -ȝhe, -ȝie, -ȝye, -yee, -yie; conȝe, -ȝie, counye, cownye, cwnyhe, coynyhe, coinȝie, coignie.
[15th c. Sc. cunȝe, repr. OF. cuigne var. of coin, coin.]
† 1. = coin n. 1 or 2: Corner or corner-stone.
| 1375 Barbour Bruce xviii. 304 Richt till the Cunȝhe of the wall. 1387 St. Giles Charters (1859) p. x, Xii hewyn stonys, astlayr and coynyhe. 1645 Fenwick Session Rec. in Edgar Old Ch. Life in Scot. 16 note, That no furmes be placed about the cuinȝies. |
† 2. A coining-house, a mint; = coin n. 4. Obs.
| 1489 Sc. Acts Jas. IV §17 (1597) The silver warke..quhilk is brocht to the cuinȝie. a 1572 Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 453 It was thocht expedient that a cunȝe should be erected. |
3. Coin, money; = coin n. 6.
| c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints, Jacobus 734 Of þaire conȝe..pennyse thretty. 1482 in Pinkerton Scot. App. I. 503 Thar was blak cunye in the realm, strikkin and ordinyt be King James the Thred, half-pennys, and threepenny pennys..of coppir. 1513 Douglas æneis viii. Prol. 97 Sum trachour crynis the cunȝe. 1513–75 Diurn. Occurrents (Bannatyne Club) 120 Ane proclamatioun twching the new cuinyee. 1552 Abp. Hamilton Catech. 98 Thai that strykis cownye of unlauchful mettall [margin, Strykaris of unlauchful connyey]. 1600 Sc. Acts 16 Jas. VI, c. 9 Great scairsitie of Cunyie. 1724 Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 105 When cunzie is scanty. |
4. Comb. † cunye-house, coining-house, mint.
| 1513–75 Diurn. Occurrents (Bannatyne Club) 53 Tuke..the Quenis irnis of the cunyehous. 1600 Sc. Acts 16 Jas. VI, c. 9 Anent the hame-bringing of Bulyeon for furnishing of the Cunye-house. 1637–50 Row Hist. Kirk (1842) p. xvii, I culd get no money out of the conze-house. a 1657 Balfour Ann. Scot. (1824–5) II. 2 Naper, Laird of Merchistone, generall of the cunzie housse. |
▪ II. † cunye, v. Sc. Obs.
Forms: see the n.
[f. prec.]
trans. To coin. Hence ˈcunyed ppl. a.
| c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. vii. v. 168 This Henry fyrst kyng of Ingland..ordanyd..Hys mone to be cwynhede rownd. 1475 Sc. Acts Jas. III, §65 (1597) All cuinȝied money. 1549 Compl. Scot. xiii. 109 Gold and siluyr, cunȝet & oncunȝet. 1588 A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. 8, 3. Gif thai bring in or cause coignie any false money. |