propine

plural propines

1. alternativeAlternative form of propyne.

present singular third person propines · participle present propining · participle past propined · past propined

1. ScotlandarchaicTo pledge; to offer as a toast in the manner of drinking, that is, by drinking first and passing the cup.

   An vther goblet, with which to propine the Quenis Grace.

   1554, Edinburgh Council Record

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   The lovely sorceress mix'd, and to the prince Health, peace and joy propin'd.

   1752, Christopher Smart, “The Hop-Garden”, in Poems

   He cheerly passes, quaffs the social glass, Propines the winds, or toasts some blooming lass.

   1818, Archibald Johnston, The Mariner: A Poem in Two Cantos, page 15

2. ScotlandarchaicbroadlyTo give in token of friendship or favour.

   […]propine the judge with purple robe

   1623, William Drummond of Hawthornden, Flowers of Sion

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   The priests of a neighbouring convent, in expectation of the ample donation, or sout-scat, which Cedric had propined, attended upon the car in which the body of Athelstane was laid, and sang hymns as it was sadly and slowly borne on the shoulders of his vassals to his castle of Conningsburgh, to be there deposited in the grave of Hengist, from whom the deceased derived his long descent.

   1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC

3. ScotlandarchaicTo give, or deliver; to subject.

   we would propine, both our selues, and our cause, vnto open and iust derision.

   1622, Martin Fotherby, Atheomastix

plural propines

1. ScotlandarchaicA pledge or toast (when drinking).

   Noo, what I would propose for a propine, Geordie, is, Health and happiness to Mr and Mrs Milrookit.

   1823, John Galt, The Entail

2. ScotlandarchaicA gift or gratuity.

   "After all," said the bailie, "when I think of all the propines and good gifts which have passed from the good town to my Lord Provost's, I cannot think he will be backward to show himself.[…]"

   1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], chapter VIII, in Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC

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   "Ay, ay," answered Ailsie, with a bitter grin; "and Sir William Ashton promised me a bonnie red gown to the boot o' that—a stake, and a chain, and a tar barrel, lass!—what think ye o' that for a propine?—for being up early and doun late for fourscore nights and mair wi' his dwining daughter. But he may keep it for his ain lady, cummers."

   1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC