adv. Sc. [See BEN adv. c.] ‘Ben’ there, within there.

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[13[?].  Cursor M., 2721 (Cott.). Sarra þar bin quare sco satt Herd þis word and logh þar-at.]

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c. 1500.  Rowll, Cursing, 124, in Bannatyne Poems (Hunter. Cl.), 302. And thow art scho that stall the hen And put hir in the pot thair ben.

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a. 1568.  Wowing Jok & Jynny, 21, ibid., 388. Ane pig, ane pot, ane raip thair ben.

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1604.  Acts Sederunt, 11 Jan. (1790), 36. For removing of that impediment of proceeding in the Utterhouse, (that the procurator is thair ben) it is appointit … that [etc.].

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1728.  Ramsay, Monk & Miller’s Wife, 144. ‘Hout I,’ quoth she, ‘ye may well ken, ’Tis ill brought but [= out] that’s no there-ben.’

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