▪ I. † hain, n. Obs.
[ME. from Norse. Cf. OSw. hæghn, Sw. hägn enclosure, hedge, Da. hegn hedge, fence. See hain v.1]
An enclosure, a park.
| c 1205 Lay. 5064 Ne sculde na cniht hærȝien, þær he hauede haines iwald [walled enclosures]. a 1440 Sir Degrev. 70 Fayere parkes in-wyth haynus, Grett herdus in the playnus [Thornton MS. Grete hertes in the haynes, Faire bares in the playnes]. |
▪ II. hain, v.1 Now Sc. and dial.
(heɪn)
Also 5 Sc. hane, 6– hayn.
[a. ON. hegna (Sw. hägna, Da. hegne) to hedge, fence, protect, preserve, deriv. of OTeut. hag- fence, hedge.]
1. trans. To enclose or protect with a fence or hedge; esp. to preserve (grass) from cattle.
| 14.. [see hained]. 1555 Sc. Acts Mary c. 23 It is..ordanit..that the said wod of Falkland be..keipit and hanit for rysing of young grouth thairof. 1573 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford 347 Portmeade shalbe hayned and layed freshe from Cattell untyll May daye. 1601 Holland Pliny xviii. xxviii, A ground would be hained in, left lay, and kept for grasse and hey. 1787 Winter Syst. Husb. 328 Ten oxen..broke into the manured field which had been hayned for mowing. 1794 T. Davis Agric. Wilts (1813) 258–68 in Archæol. Rev. (1888) Mar., Hain up the land, to shut it up for a crop of hay. 1834 Brit. Husb. I. xxxi. 486 The uplands are usually ‘hayned’, or laid up at Candlemas; but richer land is often left open until March. |
† 2. To shut up, confine, restrain. Obs. rare.
| 1636 James Iter Lanc. (Chetham) 255 Can mans wise⁓domme haine The streames of Dee from gliding to y⊇ maine? |
3. To spare, save, refrain from consuming or spending. Sc.
| 1508 Dunbar Tua mariit Wemen 386 Quhen he ane hail ȝear wes hanyt. 1572 Satir. Poems Reform. xxx. 140 And ȝe wer in yair hands, yai wald not hane ȝow. 1583 Leg. Bp. St. Androis 590 Ibid. xlv, In Seytoun he remaned, Whair wyne and aill was nothing hayned. 1728 Ramsay Fables, Miser & Minos ii, The Miser..shaw'd the ferryman a knack, Jumpt in, swam o'er, and hain'd his plack. 1825 Brockett N.C. Gloss., Hain, to save, to preserve. 1826 Scott Diary 20 Jan. in Lockhart, ‘Hain your reputation, and tyne your reputation’ is a true proverb. 1862 A. Hislop Prov. Scot. 21 A penny hain'd Is a penny gain'd. |
b. absol. or intr.
| 1606 Warner Alb. Eng. xvi. ciii. (1612) 406 Yet haine they at their feed. 1737 Ramsay Scots Prov. 72 (Jam.), They that hain at their dinner will hae the mair to their supper. |
▪ III. hain, v.2 dial.
Also 5–6 heyne, 6 hayn.
[app. deriv. form from hey, high v. to raise, with -en5.]
trans. To raise, heighten, set up.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 230/2 Hawncyn or heynyn (S. hawnsyn or yn heyyn), exalto, elevo, sublevo. Ibid. 233 (K.H.) Heynyn (P. heighthyn)..exalto, elevo. 1465 Marg. Paston in Past. Lett. No. 499 II. 176, I have spoke with Borges that he shuld heyne the price of the mershe. 1564 Order 28 Feb. in Swinden Gt. Yarmouth 53 Ordered that the merchants' dinner, or feast..shall be erected and heyned this present year. 1599 Nashe Lenten Stuffe 12 Edward the thirde..hayned the price of their priuiledges and not brought them downe one barley Kirnell. 1787 W. Marshall E. Norfolk (1795) Gloss., Hain, to raise, or heighten; as ‘to hain the rent, the rick, or the ditch’. 1895 Rye Gloss. E. Anglia, Hain, to heighten; to rise in price. Mod. Suffolk. ‘I want my wages hained.’ |
Hence haining vbl. n.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 233/2 Heynynge, exaltacio, elevacio. |