Definition of Haining

1. an enclosure [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Haining

hailshots
hailstone
hailstones
hailstorm
hailstorms
haily
haimish
hain
hain't
hainch
hainched
hainches
hainching
haineaultite
hained
haining (current term)
hainings
hainite
hainous
hains
haint
hainted
hainting
haints
haique
haiques
hair
hair's-breadth
hair-brown
hair-brush

Literary usage of Haining

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Border Memories, Or, Sketches of Prominent Men and Women of the Border by Walter Riddell Carre, James Tait (1876)
"Pringle proprietors of haining also terminated in an heir female. Since the union of the two kingdoms the County of Selkirk has been represented by six ..."

2. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1881)
"THE BEST THING WP GEAR IS THE haining O'T. I trew there's a charm in a wee pickle gear, And wha wadna strive at the gaining o't ? It mak's a puir body baith ..."

3. The Scottish Nation: Or, The Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours, and by William Anderson (1863)
"This Jobn Pringle passed advocate 18th June 1698, and in 1702 purchased the estate of haining, parish of Selkirk. On 1st July 1729, he was admitted a lord ..."

4. The Scots Revised Reports: Morison's Dictionary, 1 to 9424 (1908)
"There being mutual pursuits betwixt the Town of Selkirk and the Laird of haining, the Town pursuing a declarator of the right of property of the ..."

5. Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers by Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) (1890)
"even at haining. Two days before new moon of December 1888, a junk was seen to ride ... The Author saw a bore off haining pagoda two days after new moon, ..."

6. The Scots Revised Reports: Cases Reported Only in the Scottish Jurist, 1829-1865 by Scotland Court of Session (1907)
"It was, however, allowed to remain in the executor's hands till 1816, when Joan Black was married to Robert haining, and then its amount (L.600) was lent ..."

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