Sc. and north. dial. Also Sc. lenne, len. [f. LEND v.2 (Not repr. OE. lǽn: see LOAN sb.)] A loan.

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c. 1575.  Balfour’s Practicks (1754), 197, margin. Quhat is ane lenne, and of the restitutioun thairof.

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1594.  Sc. Acts Jas. VI. (1816), IV. 70/2. Quha euir committis vsurie … (That is to say) takis mair proffite for the len [1597 leane] of money.

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a. 1598[?].  Fergusson, Sc. Prov., xxix. (1785), 3. A borrowed len should come laughing hame.

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1609.  Skene, Reg. Maj., 47. Debt may be aweand, be borrowing and lenning, or be buying and selling; or be reason of ane lenne.

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1826.  J. Wilson, Noct. Ambr., Wks. 1855, I. 246. Do ye think Mr. Awmrose could gie me the lend of a nichtcap?

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1876.  Whitby Gloss., Len, the loan. ‘I thank you for t’ len on ’t.’

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