English citations of 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.