† ˈquinyie Sc. Obs.
Also 6 quinȝe, -ȝie, 7 -ȝee, 8 quine, qunie.
[var. cunye, Sc. f. coin n.]
1. A coin. quinyie-house, the mint. rare.
| 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. viii. 97 To lat stryk a brassin quinȝie. Ibid. x. 350 Onything that in his tyme he had spendet in the Quinȝehous. |
2. A corner. quinyie-stane, corner-stone.
| 1588 in M{supc}Crie Life A. Melville I. 440 That the bell and clock be transported to the high steeple, and that the kirk have a quinȝee left at the steeple foresaid for the relief thereof. 1734 Jrnl. fr. London to Scarborough 1–2 A whittle that lies i' the quinyie o' the maun [= basket]. a 1800 in Child Ballads V. 248 Ye [have] tane out the quinë-stane. Ibid. 11 The qunie-stane. |