Obs. Also 3 buine. [perh. worn down f. OE. bycʓen sb. ‘buying,’ f. bycʓan to BUY; cf. ME. buð for buggeð (3rd pers. sing. pres, of the verb).] Buying, purchase. (In the last quot. a pa. pple. seems required.)
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 18. Min ihesu … þu beadest us þin elming [? read elnung] al wiþ uten bune.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 362 (MSS. C. & T.). Me ne mei nout … two þongede schone habben wiðuten bune [MS. N. buggunge]. Ibid., 368 (MS. N.). Þauh clennesse ne beo nout buine [MS. C. bune] ed God.
