slayn

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English

Verb

slayn

  1. Obsolete spelling of slain., simple past and past participle of slay
    • 1673, John Milton, On the late Massacher in Piemont
      Forget not: in thy book record their groanes
      Who were thy Sheep and in their antient Fold
      Slayn by the bloody Piemontese that roll'd
      Mother with Infant down the Rocks. Their moans