Definition of Hainings

1. haining [n] - See also: haining

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hainings

hailstone
hailstones
hailstorm
hailstorms
haily
haimish
hain
hain't
hainch
hainched
hainches
hainching
haineaultite
hained
haining
hainings (current term)
hainite
hainous
hains
haint
hainted
hainting
haints
haique
haiques
hair
hair's-breadth
hair-brown
hair-brush
hair-curling

Literary usage of Hainings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Economic Geology of the Central Coalfield of Scotland: Description of by Lionel Wordsworth Hinxman, Colin Bassett Crampton, Ernst M. Anderson, M. Macgregor, Charles Thomas Clough (1917)
"A deep bore was put down in 1902—4 near North hainings with the hope of ... It is probable that a few of the " whins " in the North hainings bore are ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1892)
"Outside all was the common, so poor as to be fit only for pasturing a few sorry sheep, or growing hainings — that is, broom, heath, whin, ikc. ..."

3. ... A Treatise on the Law of Contracts by Charles Greenstreet Addison, Horace Smith, Horace Gay Wood (1888)
"hainings v. Lamar F. Ins. Co., 7 Leg. & Ins. Rep. 397. Where the exception in the memorandum clause is broad enough to include other losses beside those ..."

4. Lawrie Todd: Or, the Settlers in the Woods by John Galt (1849)
"Your brother kens the particulars of my hainings, which I cannot say mysel' exactly —just give me a scrape of a pen to him to transfer the amount to your ..."

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