Obs. [OE. wine = OFris. winne, MLG. wine, OS., OHG. wini (MHG. wine, win), ON. vinr.] A friend. Also attrib. wine mai [OE. winemǽʓ], a kinsman.
Beowulf, 39. Þenden wordum weold wine Scyldinga. Ibid., 65. Þa wæs Hroðgare heresped ʓyfen,… þæt him his winemaʓas ʓeorne hyrdon.
a. 1122. O. E. Chron. (Laud MS.), an. 975. Eadgar … West-Seaxena wine.
c. 1200. Moral Ode, 223 (Trin. Coll. MS.). Werse he doð his gode wines þan his fiendes.
c. 1205. Lay., 17601. Her wit scullen wel wreken unker wine-mæies.
c. 1220. Bestiary, 374. Eurilc Iuuen oðer, Also he were his broder, Wurðen stedefast his wine.
[1481. Caxton, Reynard, xxix. (Arb.), 74. He hath nether kyn ne wyn ne frende that wylle enterprise to helpe hym.]
