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raine1 (s.xii1)
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The form rane is a cross reference to the following entry:

raine1 (s.xii1)

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rane,  rayne;  reene,  reigne,  reine,  reinne,  rene,  reyne;  roine,  royne  (raina  Aelfric Gloss 48.134)  
  FEW:  rana 10,51b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  raine 10,475c TL: raine 8,202 DEAF:  raine  DMF:  raine  TLF:  raine  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  rana 1 2652c

The sense ‘toad’ is most likely produced by the erroneous use of the word in English with the sense ‘frog’, cf. OED toad n. sense 2.

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zool.amph.frog, Rana temporaria: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  Forsmist la terre d'els raines es cambres des reis meesmes  Oxf Ps ANTS 106.CIV.28
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Les crepaus e les raines e ly limaçon  Rom Chev ANTS 5970
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Reinnes, culovres out assemblez  Josaphaz2 2056
( MS: c.1250 )  De animalibus silvestribus: [...] Hec rana: reine; Hec lacerta: lesarde [...]  TLL i 419
( c.1270; MS: s.xivin )  Trois orz espiriz que isserent, Lesqueus a roines (var. (P: 1315-25) reins) resemblerent  Apoc Verse ANTS 997
( s.xivin; MS: 1382 )  Et en ray est pris la rayne  (M.E. In the nette [is] takun a froske)  Nominale 333
♦zool.amph.(also glossed, probably erroneously as) toad, Bufo vulgaris: 
( s.xvin; MS: s.xv1 )  roigne (M.E. a quene) sed royne (M.E. a tadde)  Fem2 115.13

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See also:

rainile  ranoile  ranoiler 
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