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▪ I. rone, n.1 Now dial.|rəʊn|
Also 5–6 (9) ron, 6 pl. ronnis, -ys, 9 roan.
[A northern word and prob. of Scand. origin, being phonetically equivalent to mod.Norw. dial. rune, var. of runne, runn, ON. runnr (mod.Icel. runnur and runni), in the same sense. The form ranez in the alliterative Morte Arth. 923 is no doubt an error.]
A brake or thicket; thick bush or undergrowth. Also attrib., as rone-root.
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1466 He rechated, & rode þurȝ ronez ful þyk. a1400Pistill of Susan 72 Þe rose ragged on rys, richest on Rone. c1470Henry Wallace v. 357 The rone wes thik that Wallace slepyt in. 1513Douglas æneis vii. Prol. 69 Smal byrdis, flokand throw thik ronnis thrang. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 359 With mos and mure and mony wodis wyld, And ron and roche. a1585Montgomerie Flyting 288 The Weird Sisters..Saw reavens rugand at that ratton be a ron ruit.
1820Blackw. Mag. Nov. 145 The foot-path..conducting us through a roan of stunted oak and hazel. 1824Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl. s.v. Rossens, The hounds could not uncover him, so the ron was set in flames about his lugs. 1846Brockett N.C. Gloss., Rone, properly a thick plantation of bushes; but in the North usually applied to a thick cover of whins, which is called ‘a rone of whins’. 1880Antrim & Down Gloss. 83 ‘Hazely roans,’ hazel brakes. ‘Brackeny roans,’ fern brakes.
▪ II. † rone, n.2
Also 5 roone.
Perh. early forms of roan rowan (the berry).
a1440Sir Eglam. 612, Y schalle geve the a nobylle stede, Also redd as ony roone [rimes stone, slon, upon]. 15..in Pinkerton Anc. Sc. Poems (1786) 192 My rubie cheiks, wes reid as rone, Ar leyn. a1586Montgomerie Misc. Poems xli. 12 Quhair lilies lyk lou is, Als rid as the rone [rime gone].
▪ III. rone, n.3 Sc. rare.
Also 7 ronn.
[Of obscure origin.]
A strip or patch of ice formed on the surface of the ground. Hence ˈrony a. (see quot. 1639).
1535Lyndesay Satyre 1050 Ȝe ar the lamps that sould schaw them the licht To leid them on this sliddrie rone of yce. 1639Sir R. Gordon Hist. Earls Sutherl. (1813) 208 This wes called the Ronie rode, becaus it hapned in the wunter season, when as the ground wes full of ronns, or sheckles of yce. 1851W. Anderson Rhymes, etc. (1867) 12 He slippit his foot on a rone i' the brae.
▪ IV. rone, n.4 Sc.|rəʊn|
Also ronn, rhone, roan.
[Of obscure origin.]
A pipe or gutter leading down from, or fixed under, the eaves of a roof to carry off the rain-water.
α1808Jamieson, Rone, the spout affixed to the side of a house, for carrying down the rain-water from the roof. 1822Galt Provost xxvii, There being then no ronns to the houses,..the rain came gushing in a spout. 1859M. Findlater Betty Musgrave 111 The drip from a broken rone falling into the hollowed doorstone. 1876W. P. Buchan Plumbing i. 3 Simple half-circle iron rhones—i.e., half-round eaves gutters made of cast iron.
β1821Galt Ann. Parish xxxiii, Getting..the window cheeks painted, with roans put up. 1831J. Wilson Noctes Amb. Wks. 1856 III. 152 You couldna hae been watter had you stood..under a roan. Say spout, James, roan is vulgar—it is Scotch. 1893Crockett Stickit Minister 175 Climbing up a convenient roan or water pipe.
▪ V. † rone, v. Obs. rare.
[var. of ro v., the n of the inf. being taken as part of the stem. Cf. mistrun for mistrow v., and see ron2.]
trans. To recreate; to comfort or console.
In the E.E. Psalter rendering L. consolari.
a1300Cursor M. 3351 Ysaac him yode to rone [v.r. ro], Thoght on thing he had to done. a1300E.E. Psalter lxxvi. 3, [I] Forsoke mi saule roned to be. Ibid. cxvii. 76 Be þi merci þat ite rone me.
Hence † ˈroning vbl. n. Obs.
a1300E.E. Psalter xxii. 5 Mikel ronynge þai me do. Ibid. xciii. 19 Þine roninges fained mi saule in querte.
▪ VI. rone
obs. f. roan; obs. pa. tense rain v. |