slayn

slayn

English

Verb

slayn

1. Obsolete spelling of slain, simple past tense 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