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▪ I. spane, n.
[a. ON. spán-n, Du. spaan, or G. span († spane), = OE. spón chip: see spoon n.]
A chip or slip of wood.
1602Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 146 Spygotts and fawset and for wood spanes, iijd. 1891Baring-Gould Urith I. vii. 105 At the fire-breast burnt, what was called a ‘spane’, that is, a slip of deal steeped in resin, which lighted the housewife at her operations at the fire.
▪ II. spane, v. north. and Sc.|speɪn|
Also 4 spone, 5–7 spayn, 6, 8–9 spain, 9 spaan, span. See also spean v.
[ad. OF. espanir or MDu. and MLG. spanen (MLG. also sponen), app. related to OE. spana, spona, G. dial. span, teat: cf. spean n.]
1. trans. To wean (an infant, lamb, etc.). Also fig. and in fig. context.
a1300Cursor M. 3018 Quen he [Isaac] was spaned [Fairf. sponed] fra þe pap, His fader..made a fest. a1340Hampole Psalter cxxx. 4 As a childe þat has nede to be on his modur kne and fostird wiþ hur mylke perisch if he be wenyd [v.r. spaned] & takyn fro mylke. c1440Alph. Tales 107 A womman when sho will spane hur child. 1483Cath. Angl. 351/1 To Spayn (A. Spane), ablactare. 1509in Mem. Fountains (Surtees) 235, xl yews with their lames to [= until] they be spaned. 1549D. Monro in Macfarlane's Geogr. Collect. (S.H.S.) III. 293 The Lambes of that end of the countrey uses to be fed, and spained fra the ȝowes. 1570Levins Manip. 19 To spane, weane, ablactare, depellere. 1653in Laing Lindores Abbey (1876) 224 Their⁓after the chyld was spayned. 1674Ray N. Co. Words 44 To Spane a Child; to wean it. [Hence in Bailey and later Dicts.] 1781–in various northern and Sc. dial. glossaries and texts. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 12 The sinfu' bodies o' the Elie Were spain'd frae image-worship hailly. 1896Pall Mall Mag. Apr. 515 To help the old shepherd in ‘spaning’ the lambs.
†b. Sc. To suspend, as a punishment. Obs.
1516[see spaning vbl. n.]. 1529Extr. Burgh Rec. Edinb. (1871) 5 To..spane thame fra the operatione for yer and day.
2. intr. Of corn: To begin to take root and cast off the seed.
Cf. WFlem. spanen, spenen, spennen, to set (of fruit).
[1828Carr Craven Gloss., Corn is said to be in spane or spaan, when it just begins to shoot its roots or to detach itself from the parent grain.] 1843Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. IV. i. 186 That state of transition, in which it cannot be said whether it derives its food from the seed, the soil, or the atmosphere (the state in which it is commonly said to be ‘spaining’). 1863Mrs. Toogood Yorksh. Dial. (MS.), The corn is looking yellow; it is just beginning to spane.
Hence ˈspaned ppl. a. Also † ˈspaneling, a weaned pig or other animal.
1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxv. 24 My new spanit howffing fra the sowk. 1560Knaresb. Wills (Surtees) I. 86 A spaned calf. 1563Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees, 1835) 210, xiij spaned calves. 1577Ibid. 417, ij sues, iiijor spainlings, & one boare. 1894P. H. Hunter J. Inwick xx. 251 I'll süne hae to stay my stamack wi' sappy meat, like a spained wean.
▪ III. spane
obs. Sc. pa. tense of spin v. |