† burne Obs.
[Early ME. burne (ü):—OE. byrne ‘cuirass, corslet’: the later form of this would have been *byrn, *birn, whence the metathetized forms bryn, brene, q.v. Cf. the parallel dissyllabic brynie, brunie, brinie, from ON., and its metathetized form byrnie.]
= brinie.
| c 1050 Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 434 Lorica anata, hringedu byrne. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 155 Nimeð gode ileue to burne. c 1205 Lay. 21123 Cnihtes mid burnen [c 1275 brunie] wel idihten. Ibid. 21129 þa dude he on his burne [c 1275 brunie]. |