Kain bairns or cain bairns were infants who, according to Scottish superstition, were seized by warlocks and witches, and paid as a tax or tithe to the Devil. John Jamieson is in error when he derives the term from the Scottish Gaelic ceann meaning a 'head'. Cin is in fact a Gaelic word for a tribute, tax or tithe, and is the origin of the Lowland Scots term. 'Bairn' means a child. The word was in use in the Scottish Borders, according to Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. It is unconnected with Cain in the Bible.
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A day (symbol: d) is a unit of time equivalent to 24 hours. It is not an SI unit but it is accepted for use with SI. The SI unit of time is the second. The term comes from the Old English dg, with similar terms common in all other Indo-European languages, such as dies in Latin and dive in Sanskrit.
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