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Definition of Bairns
1. bairn [n] - See also: bairn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bairns
Literary usage of Bairns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"Ye Mauchline bairns, as on ye pass To school in bands thegither, . . . Epit.
on U'ag. ... S. Г mo er young to marry f Now I've gotten wife and bairns, . ..."
2. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1882)
"We still maun lo'e the Giver mair, An' see Him in the given ; An' sae she'll lead
us up to Him, Our babie straight frae Heaven. bairns THEGITHER. ..."
3. The Scots Revised Reports: Morison's Dictionary, 1 to 9424 (1908)
"It was alleged for the bairns of the first marriage, that the bairns of the second
marriage could not both have their bonds of provision, and also their ..."
4. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by John Gibson Lockhart (1837)
"original character of a gravel-pit, that it is not fit to be shown to ' bairns
and fools,' who, according to our old canny proverb, should never see ..."
5. Ingleside Rhaims: Verses in the Dialect of Burns by Jeremiah Eames Rankin (1887)
"At least, until I better ken, I'll dream the pleasant thought; Nor think our
bairns grow up to men, An' sae, alas, are not! WE HA'E NAE bairns. ..."
6. Decisions of the Court of Session: From 1681 to 1691 by Roger Hog of Harcarse, Scotland Court of Session (1757)
"... to bairns and not to heirs, in place of all ... thereof to him- felf and her
in conjunct fee, and to the heirs and bairns in fee ; the bairns ..."
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