Obs. [Cf. LAIN sb.2] A layer or ‘bed.’
(The word in quot. 1530 is of doubtful identity.)
c. 1390[?]. Forme of Cury (1780), 43. Take brede itosted in wyne, lay þerof a leyne.
c. 1440. Jacob’s Well, 37. Tythe owyth to be payed of all manere wode, of leynys of oystrys, of leynys of fysch, of pondys [etc.].
1530. Palsgr., 238/2. Leyne [no French].
