▪ I. rane, n. Sc. Now rare.
(reːn)
Also 5 rayne, 6 reane, 8 rain.
[Of obscure origin. With sense 2 cf. rame n. and v.]
† 1. in a rane, continuously, without cessation. Obs.
| c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints iii. (Andreas) 989 Bot ay þe bischope in a rane beheld hyr bewte, and nocht fane. Ibid. xxxix. (Cosm. & Dam.) 251 He..cryit ay in til a rane. 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 250 Thay rattill ay in a rane. a 1585 Montgomerie Flyting w. Polwart 501 All the ky in the countrey..roaring, they wood ran, and routed in a reane. |
2. A prolonged cry or utterance; a long string of words; a rigmarole.
| c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. ii. ix. 883 Swa suld I dulle hale yhoure delyte, And yhe sulde call it bot a rane. 1513 Douglas æneis viii. Prol. 66 The railȝear raknis na wordis, but ratlis furth ranis. 1710 Ruddiman Gloss. Douglas' æneis s.v., You're like the Gowk,..you have not a rain but one. 1825 in Child Ballads II. 82/1 It was, as she described it, a ‘lang rane’ of her mother's. |
Hence rane (also 9 raen), v. † (a) trans., to demand with a continuous cry. Obs. (b) intr., to wail or complain incessantly.
| 1513 Douglas æneis vii. x. 90 Thar the detestable weris, evyr in ane, Agane the fatis all, thai cry and rane. 1899 J. Colville Scott. Vernacular 17 She tholed much from the wheenging raenin' bairn. |
▪ II. rane
obs. Sc. form of rain; obs. pa. tense run.