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▪ I. cunye, cunzie, n. Sc.|ˈkʏnjiː, ˈkʏnɪ|
Also cun-, cuin-, -ȝe, -ȝee, -ȝey, -ȝhe, -ȝie, -ȝye, -yee, -yie; conȝe, -ȝie, counye, cownye, cwnyhe, coynyhe, coinȝie, coignie.
[15th c. Sc. cunȝe, repr. OF. cuigne var. of coin, coin.]
†1. = coin n. 1 or 2: Corner or corner-stone.
1375Barbour Bruce xviii. 304 Richt till the Cunȝhe of the wall. 1387St. Giles Charters (1859) p. x, Xii hewyn stonys, astlayr and coynyhe. 1645Fenwick Session Rec. in Edgar Old Ch. Life in Scot. 16 note, That no furmes be placed about the cuinȝies.
†2. A coining-house, a mint; = coin n. 4. Obs.
1489Sc. Acts Jas. IV §17 (1597) The silver warke..quhilk is brocht to the cuinȝie. a1572Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 453 It was thocht expedient that a cunȝe should be erected.
3. Coin, money; = coin n. 6.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Jacobus 734 Of þaire conȝe..pennyse thretty. 1482in Pinkerton Scot. App. I. 503 Thar was blak cunye in the realm, strikkin and ordinyt be King James the Thred, half-pennys, and threepenny pennys..of coppir. 1513Douglas æneis viii. Prol. 97 Sum trachour crynis the cunȝe. 1513–75Diurn. Occurrents (Bannatyne Club) 120 Ane proclamatioun twching the new cuinyee. 1552Abp. Hamilton Catech. 98 Thai that strykis cownye of unlauchful mettall [margin, Strykaris of unlauchful connyey]. 1600Sc. Acts 16 Jas. VI, c. 9 Great scairsitie of Cunyie. 1724Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 105 When cunzie is scanty.
4. Comb. † cunye-house, coining-house, mint.
1513–75Diurn. Occurrents (Bannatyne Club) 53 Tuke..the Quenis irnis of the cunyehous. 1600Sc. Acts 16 Jas. VI, c. 9 Anent the hame-bringing of Bulyeon for furnishing of the Cunye-house. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (1842) p. xvii, I culd get no money out of the conze-house. a1657Balfour Ann. Scot. (1824–5) II. 2 Naper, Laird of Merchistone, generall of the cunzie housse.
▪ II. † cunye, v. Sc. Obs.
Forms: see the n.
[f. prec.]
trans. To coin. Hence ˈcunyed ppl. a.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. vii. v. 168 This Henry fyrst kyng of Ingland..ordanyd..Hys mone to be cwynhede rownd. 1475Sc. Acts Jas. III, §65 (1597) All cuinȝied money. 1549Compl. Scot. xiii. 109 Gold and siluyr, cunȝet & oncunȝet. 1588A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. 8, 3. Gif thai bring in or cause coignie any false money. |