▪ I. † loyn Obs. rare.
Also 5 loigne, loyne, 8 lowing. See also lune.
[a. OF. loigne (also longe):—med.L. longia, longea, f. long-us long a.]
A length (of cord); a leash for a hawk. Also fig.
| c 1400 Rom. Rose 3882 The loigne [F. longe] it is so longe Of Bialacoil, hertis to lure. Ibid. 7050 He shal have of a corde a loigne [F. longe], With whiche men shal him binde and lede. c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iii. xxiii. (1869) 148 Yif me a loyne [F. longe], if thou wolt, and peyre gessis. 1575 Turberv. Faulconrie 129 Let hir be loose from all hir furniture, that is without either loyne or cryaunce. 1702 J. K. Dict., The Lowings or thongs of an hawk. |
▪ II. loyn
obs. form of line v.1