▪ I. † strene, n.1 Obs. rare.
[Origin and meaning obscure.]
| 1531 Privy Purse Exp. Hen. VIII (1827) 151 Paied to one that brought a strene to the vyne fro pexhalles house, xl s. |
▪ II. † strene, n.2 or a. Mus. Obs.
[? Corruption of streinant.]
strene note: a term applied to the breve.
In the figure subjoined to the passage quoted, the breve has the form of a black slanting oblong with a stem pendent from each end. Cf. the quot. s.v. streinant.
| 1550 Marbeck Bk. Com. Praier noted A ij, The first note is a strene note and is a breue. The second a square note, and is a semy breue. The iii. a pycke and is a mynymme... The iiii. is a close. |
▪ III. strene, v. Obs. exc. north.
Forms: 1 (ᵹe-)stréonan, str{iacu}enan, strénan, str{iacu}nan, (ᵹe)str{yacu}nan, 2 (i)streonen, (ȝe)strenen, (ȝe)strienen, 2–4 strenen, 3–4 streonen, (3 streonien), 4 strene, 9 dial. strain, strene.
[OE. (ᵹe)str{iacu}enan: see strain n.1]
† 1. trans. To beget, procreate (offspring). Also with forth: To propagate (one's kind). Obs.
In OE. also to gain, acquire, which seems to be the primary sense.
| c 893 ælfred Oros. iv. i. §3 Þa..sceoldon be heora wifum bearna strienan. c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Matt. i. 6 Iudas ᵹestrynde phares. a 1175 Cott. Hom. 225 Heo and his wif þa bearn ȝestriende. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 19 Ure helende crist is his onlepi sune noht after chesunge ac after strene for þan he him strende, alse þe sunne streneð liht. c 1200 Ormin 28 Forr all follc wass þatt illke streon þatt Adam haffde strenedd. c 1205 Lay. 2502 [Locrine] þe streonede Abren vppen Astrild. c 1220 Bestiary 609 in O.E. Misc. 19 And behinden he hem sampnen ðanne he sulen oðre strenen. a 1225 Ancr. R. 210 Þeo þet..ei þing dude hwarðuruh no childe ne schulde beon of hire istreoned. a 1300 Havelok 2983 Him stondes wel þat god child strenes. c 1320 Cast. Love 1380 Hou he is Fader ȝe schullen i-heren, And hou we alle of him i-streoned weren. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. xiv. 172 And whan þe pocok caukede þer-of ich took kepe, How vn-corteisliche þe cok hus kynde forth strenede. |
| fig. a 1225 Ancr. R. 234 Sikernesse streoneð ȝemeleaste. |
† b. absol. Obs.
| c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 133 Nis na stude to istreone bicumelic butan ða þe istreonieð beon bispused rihtliche to gedere. c 1300 E.E. Psalter lxxii. 27 Þou forlest alle saufe to be þat strenen with-outen þe [L. perdidisti omnes, qui fornicantur abs te]. 13.. K. Alis. 7057 Withoute lost of synne they streoneth. c 1315 Shoreham Poems i. 2006 Ac ȝyf þat on þoþren warneþ hys flesch, Ne myȝt[e] hy naut strene. |
2. intr. Of dogs, etc.: To copulate. Also trans. (see quot. 1728). (See Eng. Dial. Dict.)
| a 1728 W. Kennett (E.D.D.) A dog streneth a bitch. [Durham.] 1820 Wilbraham Chesh. Gloss. 63 Strain v. expressive of the union of the sexes in the canine race. 1847 Halliwell, Strain, to copulate, said of the cat. Ibid., Strene, to copulate, said of a dog. Durh. |
Hence ˈstrening vbl. n.
| c 1230 Hali Meid. 47, I þe streonunge þrof, is on earst hire flesch wið þat fulðe ituked. c 1315 Shoreham Poems i. 2003 Þat oþer godnesse hys strenyng, Þer me may children wene. c 1320 Cast. Love 1389 Adam..Fleschliche streoned vs euerichon, Ac þulke fleschliche streonynge Beere vs bale. |