▪ I. veyne
southern ME. var. feign v.; obs. f. vain, vein.
▪ II. † veyne Obs.
Also veine.
[a. OF. veine, ad. L. venia pardon.]
= veny1.
| c 1400 Rule St. Benet xliv. 31 When þai say ‘Kirieleison’, sal sho take hir veine by-fore þe auter at te grece. c 1450 in Aungier Hist. Syon (1840) 250 Any brother that hathe be seek..schal first ryse and take his veyne for hys defawtes and omissyons in tyme of hys sekenes. Ibid. 328 Than..the sustres may take ther veynes, and proclame ther defautes. |