Sc. Obs. Also 6 quinȝe, -ȝie, 7 -ȝee, 8 quine, qunie. [var. CUNYE, Sc. f. COIN sb.]

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  1.  A coin. Quinyie-house, the mint. rare.

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1596.  Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., VIII. 97. To lat stryk a brassin quinȝie. Ibid., X. 350. Onything that in his tyme he had spendet in the Quinȝehous.

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  2.  A corner. Quinyie-stane, corner-stone.

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1588.  in M‘Crie, Life A. Melville (1819), I. 440. That the bell and clock be transported to the high steeple and that the kirk have a quinȝee [printed quinzee] left at the steeple foresaid for the relief thereof.

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1734.  Jrnl. fr. London to Scarborough, 1–2. A whittle that lies i’ the quinyie o’ the maun [= basket].

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a. 1800.  in Child, Ballads, V. 248. Ye [have] tane out the quinē-stane. Ibid., 11. The qunie-stane.

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