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Definition of Gynne
1. Noun. English comedienne and mistress of Charles II (1650-1687).
Generic synonyms: Comedienne
Definition of Gynne
1. v. i. To begin. See Gin.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gynne
Literary usage of Gynne
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Index Library by British Record Society (1908)
"... William Stiche, John Harryson, George gynne, John Ireland and Edmund Owen,
who say that The said Alice ..."
2. The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman by William Langland (1886)
"Ac grace is a gras ther-fore • to don hem eft growe ; Ac grace groweth nat • til
goode wil gynne reyne, ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Common Pleas and by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Henry Blackstone, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1827)
"did covenant with gynne, that a certain ship should sail with ... upon the breach
of which covenant, I|-DER™"- " gynne brought an action of debt for 5001. ..."
4. Promptorium Parvulorum Sive Clericorum, Dictionarius Anglo-latinus Princeps by Galfridus, British Museum (1843)
"This gynne hath wythe in hym a grete berne ... eo doth this gynne." B. iv. c.
xiv. Roy. MS. 18 A. XII. f. 105. ..."
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