sb. Sc. Obs. [? a. Gael. lòn.] Provisions. Also attrib., loan-money, loan-silver, board wages.
a. 1578. Lindesay (Pitscottie), Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.), II. 289. That thay sould be in reddynes agane the xxj day of Julij instant with fourtie dayes lone.
1639. Mrq. Huntley, in Spalding, Troub. Chas. I. (1850), I. 145. That all his Majesteis leges … be in reddiness prepairit with all diligens to repair whair and when he think fitting, vpone 48 houris aduertesement, with 15 dayis lone.
a. 1670. Spalding, ibid., 316. Ilk heretour to furnesh his prest man with 40 dayis loan. Ibid., II. 320. Ilk souldiour to haue sex schillinges ilk day, during the space of 40 dayes, of loan siluer … Togidder also with thair hyre or levie or loan money.
a. 1836. W. Robertson, in W. Walker, Bards Bon-Accord (1887), 606. Aft there’s ease in dolefu’ croon, Tho’ little loan lie in the wallet.
