anes

American  

[eyns] / eɪns /

adverb

Chiefly Scot.

1. once.

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Etymology

Origin of anes

Middle English, Old English, equivalent to ān one + -es adv. genitive suffix

Example Sentences

He had mair need to be paying the debts which he has made already, than making new anes, that he may feed fules and flatterers.”

From St. Ronan's Well by Scott, Walter, Sir

"It's no unlikely," said I; "I ken the maist o' the leevin folks o' the parish, and my faither kens a' the dead anes."

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Leighton, Alexander

"I've seen black anes, and I wance saw a silver-plated ane, but I never heard tell o' a blue bike afore," he said.

From A Dominie in Doubt by Neill, Alexander Sutherland

Though the cock's plea was feenal, a sleeping or dead case, as lawyers ken, may produce twenty living anes.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various

Jeems says after a whilie; an' Ribekka gae a bit geegle, an' then whispers laich in, "Help yoursel', Jeemie"—an' there they were at it like twa young anes.

From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.