slayn

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