a. Sc. Obs. Also 6 lenȝe, linȝe, 7 lenyie. [a. OF. ligne, linge, thin, slender (said both of textile fabrics and of a person’s figure: see Godef.):—L. līneus made of linen, f. līnum flax.] Fine, thin, slender.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VII. i. 30. Rych lenȝe [L. tenues] wobbis natly weiffis sche. Ibid., VIII. i. 73. A linȝe wattry garmond dyd hym vaill [L. eum tenuis glauco velabat amictu Carbasus].
16[?]. Barbour’s Bruce (1616), I. 387. His body wes weyll maid and lenye [MS. has a blank; ed. 1670 lenyie].
