sb., pa. pple., ppl. a. Obs. [f. BY- 2 a + RUN sb. and pple.]
A. sb. Running by, course, current.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 143. Time all the while holding on its even by-run.
B. pa. pple. and ppl. a. Also 6 Sc. byrunnyn.
1. Past, elapsed; (of payments) in arrear, overdue.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, V. xi. 54. Lo, sen the fall of Troy … Byrunnyn is the sevint somer.
1536. Bellenden, Cron. Scot. (1821), I. 241. The day byrunne, all Scottis war exilit.
a. 1639. Spottiswood, Hist. Ch. Scotl., VI. (1677), 325. The by-run profits intrometted by the Thesaurer.
1653. in Z. Boyd’s Zion’s Flowers (1855), Introd. 41. Byrun stipends owing by the toun.
2. As sb. pl. Arrears (of rent, etc.). Cf. BYGONE B. 1 b.
1573. Sc. Acts Jas. VI. (1597), § 58. For the by-runes awand them.
1613. Skene, Reg. Maj., Index s.v. Maister (Jam.). The byrunis of his ferms.
