▪ I. ‖ hin, n.
(hɪn)
Also 4 hyn.
[ad. Heb. hīn.]
A Hebrew measure of capacity for liquids, containing a little over a gallon.
| 1382 Wyclif Exod. xxx. 24 Oyle of the olyues, the mesure of hyn, that is, of two pownd. 1535 Coverdale Ibid., An Hin of oyle olyue. ― Lev. xix. 36 A true Epha, a true Hin shalbe amonge you. 1660 Fuller Mixt Contempl. (1841) 177 Some have had a hin, others a homer, others an ephah of afflictions. 1864 R. S. Hawker Quest Sangraal 1 The Sangraal..That held, like Christ's own heart, an Hin of blood! 1875 R. Conder in Trans. Soc. Bibl. Arch. IV. 122-3 The log or twelfth part of the hin, contains 24 cubic inches, the hin, 288 (or 1·0198 gallons). |
▪ II. † hin, hine, pers. pron., 3rd sing. masc., acc. Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 1 hiene, 1–2 hyne, 1–4 hine, 2–5 hin, 4–5 hyn, hen; 8–9 s.w. dial. en, un, 'n.
[OE. hine, hiene, accusative of he; cognate w. OFris. hine (hini, hin), MDu. hin, hen; and parallel in inflexion to OS. and Goth. ina, OHG. in, inan (MLG. ine, ene, MHG. in, Ger. ihn). In English, as in Frisian and Dutch, this original accusative has been superseded by the dative him. Already before 1000, traces are found of the dative form used instead of the acc., and before 1150 hine was obsolete in the north and midlands. Hine was used in Kentish (beside him) in 1340, but appears rarely in literature after 1400, though still, in the reduced form ĕn, ŭn, 'n ((ə)n), the ordinary form of the accusative in s.w. dialects, as ‘we zeed 'n gwayn’, we saw him going. (See Barnes Dorset Gram. (1863) 20, Elworthy W. Somerset Gram. (1877) 36.)]
= him, direct objective. Also refl.
| c 855 O.E. Chron. (Parker MS.) an. 787 Hiene mon ofsloᵹ. 898 Ibid. an. 894 Hi hine ne mehton ferian. c 1000 Gosp. Nicodemus v, Gelæde hyne in to me. 1126 O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.), He sende him to Walingeforde..and let hine don on harde bande. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 19 We hine sculde luuian. Ibid. 23 Þa man þe beoð in þe castel and hin ȝemeð. c 1205 Lay. 584 Mid him he hine lædde. Ibid. 26371 Let hine halden France [c 1275 let him holde]. a 1225 Ancr. R. 86 Þe uorme..preiseð hine biuoren himsulf, & makeð hine..ȝet betere þen he beo. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 3004 Fleȝes kin sal hin ouergon. c 1250 O. Kent. Serm. in O.E. Misc. 26 Hi wolden gon for to hyne anuri. Ibid. 27 Al swo hi hedden ifonden ure louerd, swo hin anurede. 1340 Ayenb. 16 Liȝtbere þe angel..him wolde emni to god, þet hine zo uayr an zuo guod hedde y-mad. c 1450 Lonelich Grail xxxviii. 374, I saw hyn fyhten as I vndirstond. 1746 Exmoor Scold. (E.D.S.) 208 Whan tha hadst cort en by the heend Legs o'en. Ibid. 256 Tha wud'st ha' borst en to Shivers, nif chad net a-vung en. a 1754 Fielding Fathers iii. i, I would a brought un to town, but the dogs would not spare un. 1785 S. Fielding Ophelia II. iv, They called the dead halloo, and cried out—‘To-un, boys, to-un!’ 1856 Punch Jan. 37 Each feller I met, ‘Didst thee zee un?’ did cry. |
b. Rarely (by confusion) for the dative.
| 1127 O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.), Se kyng of France..iæf hine þone eorldom, and þet land folc him wið toc. |