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▪ I. † hayne1 Obs.
Also 4–5 heyne, 6 haine, hayn.
[Origin obscure. Connexion with hain v.1 3 has been suggested. (The phonology shows connexion with OE. héan to be impossible.)]
A term of reproach: A mean wretch, a niggard.
c1386Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. 766 He..in his sleue..hadde a siluer teyne He slyly tooke it out, this cursed heyne [v. rr. hayn(e, haine, Lansd. hyne]. a1529Skelton Bouge of Courte 328 It is great scorne to see such an hayne As thou arte..With us olde seruantes such maysters to playe. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. i. 51 a, Haines and niggardes of their purse. Ibid. ii. 215 a, That sparing, pinching, and plaiyng the nygardes or haynes, belonged to cookes, and not to kinges. 1570Levins Manip. 200/6 Hayne, verna.
▪ II. † hayne2 Astrol. Obs.
[f. hain v.2 to raise, elevate.]
= exaltation 3.
1647Lilly Chr. Astrol. lxx. 416 The Significator of the Man hath no manner of affliction, viz. {female} she being in her Hayne, and free from the least manner of misfortune. |