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Meanings of gien in English

Groupe interdisciplinaire d'études nizaniennes.

Usage of gien in English
1
It is not enough to gie money, it must be gien wisely.
Scottish sketches
2
An ill hert wad be mine gien it didna tell me that!
Warlock o' Glenwarlock: A Homely Romance
3
Tell me what it is, an' gien I may, I wull.
Warlock o' Glenwarlock: A Homely Romance
4
Yo've gien him a taste he'll not forget in a week o' Sundays.
The History of David Grieve
5
I like as ill to be coontit a hypocrite as gien I war ane.
Donal Grant
6
He's welcome to me, gien he be welcome to you.
Donal Grant
7
Or gien I cud win oot amo' the rigs!
Sir Gibbie
8
You hae gien way mair than I did.
Scottish sketches
9
For the Government's gien us the sax-hour day.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 26, 1919
10
Lassie, he's been tak'n by the Laird Provost an' gien the name o' the auld kirkyaird.
Greyfriars Bobby
11
Secondly, I hae gien security for an Englishman-and ,inthe third and last place, well a-day!
The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain ...
12
I'd better never ha gien it tha.'
The History of David Grieve
13
She had her ane way wi' everybody, an' e'en I mysel' hae gien up to her, whiles.
Adèle Dubois / A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Bru...
14
What gien we never see 'im again!
Warlock o' Glenwarlock: A Homely Romance
15
But they say even the sheep dog kens ilk sheep i' the flock 'at 's gien him in chairge.
The Marquis of Lossie
16
An' for lea'in' the place, gien I be na in your service, Maister Crathie, I'm nae un'er your orders.
The Marquis of Lossie
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