Citations:spain


 * 1549, D. 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 zowes.
 * 1819, W. Tennant, Papistry Storm'd (1827), 12:
 * The sinfu' bodies o' the Elie Were spain'd frae image-worship hailly.


 * 1653, in Laing, Lindores Abbey (1876), 224:
 * Theirafter the chyld was spayned.