Now only Sc. and north. dial. [pa. pple. of TINE v.2] Lost.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter, xvii. 18. Bot if ȝe lefe ȝoure syn and doe penaunce ȝe be tynt men.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, iii. (Andreas), 438. How þe tynt sawlis of al men War brocht to be restorynge Of þe croice.
c. 1500. Kennedy, Passion of Christ, 214. Lord and King, Send fra þe hevin the tynt man to recure.
a. 1584. Montgomerie, Cherrie & Slae, 816. Tint tyme we may not get again.
1725. Ramsay, Gentle Sheph., III. iii. But we’re nae sooner fools to give consent, Than we our daffin, and tint power repent.
