bairn-time
bairn-time noun: offspring; the group of all offspring.
Noun
bairn-time (plural bairn-times)
- Offspring; the group of all offspring.
- And thus they have thought , that when a Family or Bairn-time incline to a Conſumption (which being a diſeaſe hereditary runs much in a blood) in that caſe it is good that they part Company, and live at a diſtance one from another, for that the diſeaſe is ſtrengthned by their ſocial conversation.1692, Thomas Bell, “Sermon Hoſea 2: 14: Therefore behold, I will allure her, I will bring her into the winderneſs, and ſpeak comfortably unto her”, in Nehemiah the Tirſhatha: or, The Character of a...
- I had once a bony bairn-time of bairns (a great many good children) in Scotland, which they bereaved me of; ſome of whom they ſent to foreign lands and plantations, others they drowned in the ſea, others they killed in the fields upon gibbets and ſcaffolds, for which I will drive them out of their...1745 [1737], The Wonderful Scotch Prophecy: or, the Whole Viſions, Discoveries, and Warnings of the Dreadful and Terrible Judgements upon Scotland, England and Ireland, […], London: […] John Lewis...
Forms of bairn-time
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Origin of bairn-time
From Scots bairntime, from Middle English barntem, from Old English bearntēam. Influenced by time.
Questions about bairn-time
- What does bairn-time mean?
- Bairn-time means offspring; the group of all offspring.
- What part of speech is bairn-time?
- Bairn-time is a noun.
- What is the plural of bairn-time?
- The plural of bairn-time is bairn-times.
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