Sc. form of FANE1.
1496. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., I. 286. Item, for xiij dowbill platis to be thanis to the pailȝounis.
1570. Satir. Poems Reform., xxii. 84. Lyke wauering thane, thy proces vane Will brew the bitter gall.
1716. in Thanes of Cawdor (Spalding Cl.), 417. Thanes for the horse heads [at a funeral], £80.
1782. Orem, Chanonry Aberdeen, 21. With cross thanes of iron on the top of each of them.