† sinetn.
Obsolete.
A signet.
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c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) xlviii. 213 He openid hit, & sawe þerein letters selid withe the sinet of þe Emperoure.
1502 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 25 A ryng of sylver and gylt and a synat of sylver.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 187 Signet, a synet.
1554 H. Machyn Diary (1848) 51 Ther was a man..hangyd, dran, and quartered, for conterffeyting the quen senett.
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