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ean, v.
Forms: 1 éanian, 4 enen, enye(n, 5 enyn, 6 eane, eyne, 7– ean. (pa. pple. 4 eindyd.)
[OE. éanian = Du. dial. oonen of same meaning; Prof. Sievers considers the OTeut. type to be *aunôjan, f. *aw-jâ ewe.
The current identification with OE. éacnian to bring forth does not account for the specialized sense, and the supposed loss of the c lacks analogy.]
trans. Of ewes: To bring forth lambs, to yean. Also intr. See yean.
a1000Lamb. Ps. lxxvii[i]. 70 (Bosw.) He ᵹenam hine of eowedum sceapa, fram eaniᵹendum he ᵹenam hine. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 451 An hoyffer..enyed a lomb. 1398― Barth. De P.R. xviii. iv. (1495) 757 Lambes whyche ben eindyd in spryngyng tyme. 1440Promp. Parv. 140 Enyn, feto. 1555Eden Decades W. Ind. (Arb.) 329 A lambe newly eyned. 1580North Plutarch 582 An Ewe that had eaned a Lamb. c1640J. Smyth Lives Berkeleys (1883) I. 243 Eaned and nursed up such a couple of twins as the kingdome..could not parralell. 1750W. Ellis Mod. Husbandm. IV. i. 115 (E.D.S.) When the ewe has lately eaned. 1864in Webster. 1965Times 18 Feb. 14/6 The..ewes who were due to ean..were driven down..to the fold.
Hence ˈeaned ppl. a., born (of lambs); ˈeaning vbl. n., the action of bearing lambs; also attrib., as in eaning-mood, eaning-time; ˈeanling, a young lamb.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. i. iii. 80 All the eanelings which were streakt and pied. 1599Broughton's Lett. vii. 24 Your selfe-conceiuing phantasie, being euer in the eaning mood. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 88 Salt is to be given to them after eaning. 1637B. Jonson Sad Sheph. i. iv. (1640) 134 And both [ewes and rams] do feed, As either promised to increase your breed At eaning-time. 1639G. Daniel Ecclus. xlvi. 47 When he the Ean-ling offer'd. a1648― Eclog. v. 57 Dire, as y Smiting Haile to new-ean'd Lambs. |