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▪ I. wand, n.|wɒnd|
Forms: 3–5 wond, 4–5 wonde, wende, 5 won, 4 waande, 4–6 wande 4 vande, 6 vand), 8–9 dial. wan, 9 Sc. whand, 3– wand.
[a. ON. (*vandu-r) vǫnd-r (MSw. vand-er, Sw. vand, Da. vaand, Norw. vona) = Goth. wandu-s:—OTeut. *wandu-z (not found in WGer.), prob. f. the root *wend-: *wand- (to turn, wind (see wind v.), so that the etymological connotation is that of suppleness or flexibility).]
A stick or rod. The word has little colloquial currency exc. in Sc. and northern dialects, in which it suggests the notion of suppleness; as a literary word it is usually apprehended (by southern readers) as denoting something rigid. In the Bible of 1611 it occurs only once (Ecclus. xxxiii. 24); the Revised Version (1894) substitutes stick.
1. a. A straight slender stick. Now Sc. and dial. In Scottish use, chiefly a slender pliant stick cut from a stem or branch of a shrub or young tree.
The early examples occur chiefly in biblical references, where mod. usage follows the Bible of 1611 in substituting rod; applied, e.g., to the ‘rod’ carried by Moses, to Aaron's ‘rod’ that budded, etc.
c1200Ormin 16178 Þatt he swa swiþe mikell follc Draf all ut off þe temmple, All att hiss wille wiþþ an wand. c1250Gen. & Ex. 2923 And worpen he ðor wondes dun, fro euerilc ðor crep a dragun. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xi. 43 In þat ark ware Moyses tables,..and Aaron wand, and þe ȝerde of Moyses. c1460Towneley Myst. viii. 247 Moyses... My Wand he bad, in thi present, I shuld lay downe, and the avyse how it shuld turne to oone serpent. 1587Harrison England i. xviii. 109/2 in Holinshed, If it..be accompted good soile, on which a man may laie a wand ouer night, and on the morrow find it..ouergrowen with grasse. 1601Holland Pliny xxxiv. vi. II. 492 [He] made no more adoe, but with a wand or rod that he had in his hand, drew a circle about the king, and compelled him perforce to give him his answere before he stirred his foot without that compasse. 1603Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 487/2 Reddendo unam virgam agrifolii (ane grene holene wand) nomine albe firme. 1616R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) 35 He that desires to breake a bunch of wandes, Must not take all at once into his handes. 1624Gataker Transubst. 49 Moses holding a wand in his hand, did cast it from him, and it became a serpent. 1670Milton Hist. Brit. iv. 157 Sigebert..they..carried by force out of the Monastery into the Camp; where acting the Monk rather then the Captain, with a single wand in his hand, he was slain with Egric.
fig.c1450Holland Houlate 752 Thow seker trone of Salamon, Thow worthy wand of Aaron.
b. As a type of slenderness or straightness.
1508Dunbar Gold. Targe 63 Ane hundreth ladyes..With..mydlis small as wandis. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. ii. iii. 23 Now sir, this staffe is my sister: for, looke you, she is as white as a lilly, and as small as a wand. [1608: see wand-like in 15.]
†c. A light walking-stick, cane. Obs.
1548Udall etc. Erasm. Par. Mark vi. 6–9 For he geueth them leaue to vse eche one a wande, and a payre of sandals. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 202 Bringing him into the corne field, and smyting off, with a wand that I helde in my hande, the eares of wheate. 1607Peele's Jests (c 1620) 4, I thank you sir, quoth the barber, so on goes George with him in his green Jerkin, a wand in his hand very pretty. 1667Milton P.L. i. 294 His spear, to equal which the tallest Pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the Mast Of some great Ammiral, were but a wand, He walkt with. 1760–2Goldsm. Cit. W. xiii, From hence our conductor led us through several dark walks.., talking to himself, and flourishing a wand which he held in his hand.
d. A stick used as a pointer.
1589[see want n.2 5 b]. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop xxviii, Mrs. Jarley..formally invested Nell with a willow wand, long used by herself for pointing out the characters.
2. a. A young shoot, a slender stem of a shrub or tree, a sapling; a slender branch or twig. Obs. exc. poet. (rare) and dial. † under the wand: in the greenwood.
a1300Cursor M. 1418 Þe pipins war don vnder his [Adam's] tung, Þar ras o þam thre wandes yong. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1161 At vche wende vnder wande wapped a flone. c1400Melayne 1213 Þ⊇ Messangere bare a wande Of ane Olefe in his hande. c140026 Pol. Poems xv. 60 For al þe body beren þay [sc. man's legs], As a tre þat bereþ wandes. c1440York Myst. xii. 78 Vpponne þat wande sall springe a floure. c1440Pallad. on Husb. iv. 537 A toppe of hit [the fig] to sette other a wonde Is holdon best right in Aprilis ende. 1457Hardyng Chron. in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1912) Oct. 746 Men chastyse ofte grete courours by hakenayse, And writhe the wande while it is yonge and grene. c1480Henryson Town & C. Mouse iii, Scho tuik in mynde hir sister vponland, And langit..To se quhat lyfe scho had vnder the wand. 1559in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1565 390/1 Rungis and wandis of hissill and sauch. 1592Greene Disput. 26 They..bent the tree while it was a wand. 1596Spenser F.Q. v. ix. 17 Into a bird it chaung'd, and from him past, Flying from tree to tree, from wand to wand. 1596Edw. III, v. 143 A Hasle wand amidst a wood of Pynes. 1850Allingham Poems, Music-Master i. xxiv, The heart is new As the green wand fresh budded on a fir. 1919Blackw. Mag. Nov. 645/1 The stem bends like a hazel wand.
b. as a type of suppleness.
1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. 2472 And with hym brouȝt..His slepy ȝerde as plyaunt as a wonde. c1480Henryson Age & Youth 13 His eyne wes hol, his woce wes hace hostand, walowit & wane, waik as ane wand. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) I. 381 Leicht as ane leif, and waldin as ane wand.
3. A young shoot of willow cut to be used in basket-making, wattled buildings, or the like. Also collect. Now Sc. and dial.
a1300Cursor M. 1672 First bind it wele wit balk and band, And wind it siþen well wit wand. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 6900 A litil chapell of wandes þai made. 1457Nottingham Rec. II. 365 Peid to a man for bondyll wandus jd. 1572Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees) I. 375 Cowpe waynes of wandes. 1615Markham Country Contentm. i. i. 14 Which seats would bee either boorded, or watled with stakes and small wands on the sides to hold vp the earth from falling. 1724Ramsay Tea-T. Misc. (1733) I. 29 Ane auld kist made of wands. 1770J. Coates's Coll. Poems 21 The light machine [the cradle] with decent neatness stands, The jetting sides compos'd of slender wands. 1796W. Marshall Planting I. 187 In Yorkshire, the ‘wands’ are sold by the bundle; but in Glocestershire, where Ozier grounds abound.., the grounds are let..to basket makers. a1803Lord William ix. in Scott Minstr. Scott. Bord. III. 267 Your cage shall be of wiry goud, Whar now it's but the wand. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Wan, a long rod to wave into a wattled hedge.
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a. A rod, stick, or switch for chastisement; also fig. (in religious use) Obs. Also dial. a ‘rod’ or bundle of twigs for flogging.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 5888 Ȝerd ne vond heo preste non þat child uorto bete. a1300Cursor M. 2612 Abram said..Þou chasti hir sco [read þou] has þe wand. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 5878 ‘Þe wande’, he says, ‘of disciplyne smart, Sal chace foly out of þe childes hert’. c140026 Pol. Poems xxiv. 48 To ȝerde of loue y moste me boun; Lord, me chastice wiþ þat wande. c1400Cursor M. 29093 (Cotton Galba MS.) Þe first [discipline es]..Als wering of haire and oþer thing..Þat oþer point to vnderstand, Es kneling and beteing with wand. 1549Compl. Scot. i. 23 Quhiddir that this dolorus afflictione be ane vand of the fadir to correct & chestie the sone be mercy, or [etc.]. 1633Sir A. Johnston (Ld. Wariston) Diary (S.H.S.) I. 46 If I..had humbled myselth unto the Lord whil the wand was above my head, the Lord would haive spaired. 1828Craven Gloss., Wand, a rod, a collection of twigs, used for correction.
†b. under the wand: liable to corporal correction. Hence (with influence of sense 6), subject to (the) rule (of a person): = med.L. sub virga. Cf. yard n. 4. Sc. Obs.
c1400Rule St. Benet ii. 6 Wide summe sal tu faire speke, and summe gete wid chastiment & haue þam under wand. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 106 The Emperour has mony syndry kynde of peple under his wand. 1575in Maitl. Cl. Misc. I. 125 Thair is sum brether quhilk ar nocht under the vand of the prouest and bailyeis of the burgh. 1609Skene Reg. Maj., Quon. Attach. xx, Sa lang as her husband was livand, she was vnder his wand and power.
5. A stick or switch for urging on a horse. Obs. exc. dial.
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxvi. 122 Þai hase owþer in þaire hand a whippe or a wand. 1529Lyndesay Compl. 180 [Thay] nother sparit spurris nor wandis. 1587L. Mascall Govt. Cattle, Of Horses (1596) 189 If your horse chance to tyre on the way, if spurre, and wande will not profit, ye shall put three or foure rounde peble stones into one of his eares. 1607Puritan iii. v. 81 Ile haue an Hackney-mans wand siluerd ore a purpose for you. 1609Bible (Douay) Ecclus. xxxiii. 25 Fodder, and wande [so 1611; Coverdale 1535, Geneva 1560 whippe; 1894 R.V. stick; Gr. ῥάβδος. Vulg. virga], and burden for an asse.
†6. A sceptre. Obs.
a1300[see king n. 14]. c1320Sir Tristr. 909 Rohand he ȝaf þe wand And bad him sitt him bi. c1440Alphabet of Tales lxxx. 62 He had in his hand a golden wand of þe kynges. a1500Lancelot 1891 For he [God] forsuth haith ifyne hyme the wond To Iustefy and Reull in pece his lond.
7. a. A rod or staff borne as a sign of office; esp. a tall slender rod of white wood, sometimes of ebony or silver, carried erect by an officer of the royal household or of a court of justice, by a verger or beadle, or by an official whose duty it is to walk before a judge or other high dignitary on occasions of ceremony.
c1430Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 1327 That day in stede of a white wonde A staf he bare thoo in his honde. c1472B.N.C. (Oxf.) Munim., Coldenorton Bdl. G. 18 A won of the bullard of the place. 14..Sir Beues 3243 (Pynson) Delyuer me thy wande, For Guy, his fader, was my marchal, And so syr Beuys, hys son, shal! 1573in Feuillerat Revels Q. Eliz. (1908) 200 Poles and Wandes for the Lictors. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, i. ii. 28 Me thought this staffe mine Office-badge in Court Was broke in twaine And on the peeces of the broken Wand Were plac'd [etc.]. 1598Drayton Heroical Ep. xiii. (Elinor Cobham to Dk. Humfrey) 62 Do shamefull penance,..Rong with a bell, a Taper in my hand, Bare-foot to trudge, before a Beedles wand. 1610in J. Davidson Inverurie vi. (1878) 194 Comperit Patrick Leslie, John Johnston,..bailzies, and freely dischargit thame of their offices of bailzies, and jurisdiction thereof, be deliverance of the wand in the hands of the clerk and consall. a1618Ralegh Prerog. Parl. 19 What say you to the Parliaments of the White Wands in the three and thirtieth yeere of the King? 1713Swift Faggot Wks. 1755 IV. i. 8 Stewards..who in solemn sort Appear with slender wands at court. 1728Young Love Fame i. 207 Some lords it bids admire their wands so white, Which bloom, like Aaron's, to their ravish'd sight. 1776Pennsylvania Even. Post 9 Apr. 178/2 His Excellency General Washington, the other General Officers and their sutes,..met in the Council Chamber, from whence, preceded by the Sheriff with his Wand, they repaired to the Old Brick Meeting House. 1789Belsham Ess. I. xiv. 259 A ribband, a title, or a white wand, have been as eagerly pursued..as knowledge, virtue, and everlasting happiness. 1805Southey Madoc i. xiii. 97 On either hand Three Monks uphold above, on silver wands, The purple pall. 1835Dickens Sk. Boz, Publ. Dinners, Up rise the visitors, in march fourteen stewards, each with a long wand in his hand, like the evil genius in a pantomime. 1853― Bleak Ho. xix, There is only one Judge in town... If the country folks of those assize towns on his circuit could see him now! No full-bottomed wig, no red petticoats, no fur, no javelin-men, no white wands. 1868Morris Earthly Par. (1870) I. i. 5 And in their hands Long carven silver-banded ebony wands.
fig.a1894Stevenson In South Seas i. vi. (1900) 46 Our chief..was always called..Taipi-kikino; and yet that was not his name, but only the wand of his false position.
b. Applied to the caduceus of Hermes or Mercury.
c1407Lydg. Reson & Sens. 1736 He [Mercury] helde a yerde in his ryght honde, That so mervelous a wonde was neuer sen. 1645Stapylton tr. Musæus B 3 b, Brought to your service by his golden dart, As rough Alcides by the golden wand Of Hermes, to the Lydian Maid's command. 1697Dryden æneis iv. 355 But first he [Hermes] grasps within his awful Hand The mark of Sov'raign Pow'r, his Magick Wand. 1790Cowper Odyss. x. 337 A God Met me, the bearer of the golden wand, Hermes.
8. a. A staff or baton serving as a symbol in certain legal transactions.
c1420Wyntoun Cron. viii. xii. 1963 Þis Iohun þan tuk vp a qwyt wande, And gaf vp in þis Edwardis hande Off þis Kynrik al þe richt Þat he had. 1875Maine Hist. Inst. ix. 254 The wand which the claimant held in his hand is stated by Gaius to have represented a spear.
†b. Scots Law. wand of peace: a silver-tipped baton delivered to an outlaw in token of his restoration to the king's peace; also carried by a king's messenger as the symbol of his office, and broken by him (by way of protest) if he was resisted in the execution of his duty.
1511Reg. Privy Seal Scot. I. 355/2 With power to the schireffis..to relesch him fra the horne and deliver him the wand of pece, etc. 1564–5Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 311 Restoir him to oure Soverane Ladiis peace, and gif to him the wand thairof. 1672Rec. Justiciary Court Edinb. (S.H.S.) II. 76 He and other persons lybelled, beat and wounded the Messenger after he had laid hold upon the said Hary and touched him with his wand of peace several times. 1678Sir G. Mackenzie Crim. Laws Scot. i. xxvi. §iii. (1699) 130 The Wand of Peace is that whereby they touch a Rebel, and declares him to be their Prisoner, and when they are deforced, they use to break the wand of Peace. 1815Scott Antiq. xlii. 1815― Guy M. xlvi.
†9.
a. A measuring rod. (Cf. metewand, yard-wand, ell-wand.) Also Mining, a measure of 8 feet. Obs.
a1637B. Jonson Underwoods xlii. (1640) 193 Guided by experience, whose straite wand Doth meet, whose lyne doth sound the depth of things. 1670Pettus Fodinæ Reg. 86 And a Meer shall contain in length 10 wands and 7 feet, that is to say 87 feet. c1730Ramsay Maltman ii. (1877) II. 204 Maltmen come for siller, And gaugers with wands o'er soon. 1829Scott Anne of G. iii, Your..sentiments..rather belong to the sword than the measuring wand.
†b. A measure of land; ? a virgate. Obs.
1596Yorksh. Deeds (Yorksh. Arch. Soc., Rec. Ser.) II. 191 [Two] wandes [of meadow] in the Northe Inges. 1684Rector's Bk., Clayworth (1910) 67 Meadow in Easting 5 Wands, Arable 1½ Ac.
†10. Anat. The smaller bone of the forearm, the radius: = ell-wand 2. Obs.
1634T. Johnson Parey's Wks. vi. xxvi. (1678) 147 The cubit is composed of two bones, the one of which we call the Radius, or Wand.
11. a. A magic rod; the staff used in enchantments by a fairy or a magician. Now the most prominent sense. Cf. F. baguette. Also fig.
a1400–50Wars Alex. 57 On hiȝt in his a hand haldis a wand And kenely be coniurisons callis to him spritis. c1480Henryson Test. Cresseid 311 This dulefule sentence Saturne tuik on hand,..And on hir heid he laid ane frostie wand. 1610G. Fletcher Christ's Vict. ii. lviii, A Silver wande the sorceresse did sway. 1634Milton Comus 659 Comus. Nay Lady sit; if I but wave this wand, Your nerves are all chain'd up in Alabaster. 1667Dryden Ind. Emp. ii. i, High-Priest..Once, twice, and thrice, I wave my Sacred Wand, Ascend, ascend, ascend at my command. [An earthly Spirit rises.] 1742Young Nt. Th. ix. 2174 Sleep's dewy wand Has strok'd my drooping lids, and promises My long arrear of rest. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho i, If I creep near yonder oak she will wave her fairy wand. 1798Wordsw. P. Bell Prol. 146 A potent wand doth Sorrow wield. 1849W. Irving Goldsmith xlv. (1850) 422 His pen is a wand of power in his hand. 1853Dickens Bleak Ho. xxxvi, If a good fairy had built the house for me with a wave of her wand, I could not have been more considered in it. 191419th Cent. Feb. 262 Such a view, attributing as it does magical powers to the wand of the legislator, is in absolute contradiction with facts.
b. transf. electric wand: see quot.
1898Sloane Electr. Dict. (ed. 2) 627 Torch, Electric Gas Lighting, a portable apparatus for producing a spark for gas lighting... Synonym—Electric Wand.
12. A fishing-rod. Now chiefly Sc.
1565Sir W. Cecil in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. II. 296, I dowt not but though yow shall be farr off, yow will use a long anglyng wand to catch some knoledg. 1839T. T. Stoddart Songs & P. 13 To all wights of the wand Welcome are ye! 1895‘Cotswold Isys’ Lyra Piscat. 102 And under the shade of the beechen boughs, I deftly ply my wand. 1913N. Munro New Road xx, He made a fire, and cut a wand, and dropped a maggot in a pool and caught two little fishes.
13. The straight rigid pipe linking the cleaning head to the hose of a vacuum cleaner.
1940E. Hemingway For whom Bell Tolls xi. 149 The round opening at the end of the wand of a vacuum cleaner. 1967Boston Sunday Herald 9 Apr. (Advt.), Attachments include braided hose, two wands and rug-bare floor tool. 1978Choice (Austral. Consumers' Assoc.) Nov. 378 Most vacuum cleaners these days have moulded plastic bodies. Hoses are plastic or cloth covered, and some are of the ‘stretch’ variety. Wands and cleaning heads tend to be either plastic, steel or aluminium or a combination of these.
14. A hand-held electronic device which can be passed over a bar code to read the data it represents and convert them into a computer-compatible form.
1978Bookseller 17 June 3196/1 The light pen, or ‘wand’, that could read machine-readable codes on books. 1980Sci. Amer. Apr. 111/1 (Advt.), As part of a portable data entry system, the wand can be used to read shelf tags for inventory control and order entry. 1982What's New in Computing Nov. 62/1 Intermec designs and manufactures..scanning wands for the printing and computer reading of tickets, tags and labels.
15. attrib. and Comb., as wandlike adj. and adv.; with the sense ‘made of wicker-work’ (Sc.) as in wand-basket, wand-bed, wand-cage, wand-chair; in sense 10, as wand-smitten, wand-stricken. Also wand-bearer, one who carries a wand in a procession or otherwise as a sign of office; spec. as the title of certain honorary lay officials of St. Paul's Cathedral, London; † wand-bone (wan beyn) Sc. = sense 9; † wand-church (-kirk), cf. wanded a. 1 b; † wandclot dial. (meaning obscure); † wand-hand Sc., the hand that holds the wand or whip; wand-weaver dial., a basket-maker.
1694Sir J. Foulis Acc. Bk. (S.H.S.) 165 For 2 *wand baskits, 1 1 0.
1840H. Cockton Val. Vox xv, Two *wand-bearers started off immediately for the men who were elsewhere engaged in the museum. 1872H. P. Liddon in J. O. Johnston Life & Lett. (1904) vii. 168 Thanksgiving Day... Mr. Foster, John and Mr. G. A. Spottiswoode, as wand-bearers, were present. We all got into church at 9.30. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 422 He has been a true mystic and not a mere routineer or wand-bearer.
a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (Bannatyne Club) II. 297 The young laird lying sore seik also..was transportit in ane *wandbed..fra the tolbuith to the castell.
c1470Henry Wallace xi. 123 On the *wan bayn with gret ire can him ta, Cleyffyt the cost rycht cruelly in twa.
1828Moir Mansie Wauch i. 10 A blackbird..hung above his head in a *whand-cage of my faither's making.
1680Sir J. Foulis Acc. Bk. (S.H.S.) 40 To mrs urqrt to buy a bairns *wand-chair, 2 18 0. 1685G. Sinclair Satan's Invis. World 98 The Maid did start up out of a Wand-Chair, where she sat. 1898N. Munro John Splendid xv, ‘It's your welcome, Argile,’ said I, putting a wand chair to the front for him.
c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 6125 A kirke..*wand kirke was called beforne.
1397Priory of Finchale (Surtees) p. cxviii, Item ij *wand-clots et j stapyll.
1637Rutherford Let. to R. Stuart 17 June, The devil and temptations now have the advantage of the brae of you, and are upon your *wand-hand and your working hand. 1684J. Renwick Serm. (1776) 54 There is no land or church that is likely to get the wand-hand, so to speak, of Scotland.
1608Shakes. Per. v. i. 110 Such a one my daughter might haue beene: My Queenes square browes; her stature to an inch, as *wandlike-straight. 1793Martyn Lang. Bot., Virgatus..caulis, a rod-like or wand-like stem or branch. 1834M. Scott Cruise Midge ii, The wand-like tops of the polacre's tall masts. 1847Darlington Amer. Weeds, etc. (1860) 433 Virgate, wand-like; long, slender, and straight. 1859Meredith R. Feverel xxii, Know you those wand-like touches of I know not what, before which our grosser being melts.
1897H. N. Howard Footsteps Proserpine 41 As from the nebulous elemental sea, *Wand-smitten by the Eternal Mind, Earth rose.
1847M. Howitt Ballads 267 Like that old mystery Of the *wand-stricken rock.
1896Leeds Mercury Suppl. 12 Sept. (E.D.D.), His two uncles, by trade *wand-weavers.
Sense 15 in Dict. becomes 16. Add: 15. a. More fully curling wand, styling wand: a heated appliance used for curling or styling hair. b. Freq. as mascara wand: a small applicator for mascara, etc., usu. with a brush at one end.
1962McCall's Apr. 108 To apply [mascara]..use a magnifying mirror and either brush or wand. 1967Ladies' Home Jrnl. Oct. 128/2 Mascara comes in four forms: cake, cream, roll-on and brush-on... Wands, either roll-on or brush-on, are applied directly from the applicator. 1974Good Housekeeping (N.Y.) July 79/1 If the sides of your hair are tapered, a styling wand will curl them back for a ‘winged’ effect. 1982N.Y. Times Mag. 29 Aug. vi. 240/4 While cleaning out the bathroom medicine chest you find a four-year-old mascara wand that was used only once. Should you toss it out? 1989B. A. Mason Love Life 55 Carefully, Sue Ellen smudged her eyeliner with a sponge-tipped wand. 1991Hair Styling Feb. 21/2 When the rollers have cooled, brush hair out, using a curling wand to work in distinct waves moving back from the face, then spritz with spray for all-night hold.
▪ II. wand, v.|wɒnd|
[f. wand n.]
1. trans. To wattle, interweave, plait. to wand in, to enclose with wattle-work. Sc. and dial.
c1475Rauf Coilȝear 368 He kest twa Creillis on ane Capill, with Coillis anew, Wandit thame with widdeis, to wend on that wane. 1573–80Tusser Husb. (1878) 74 Now make and wand in trim bower to stand in. Leaue wadling about, till arbor be out. 1593[cf. wanded ppl. a. 1 b]. 1894Northumbld. Gloss. s.v., The gate's wanded wi' thorns, so nowt can get in.
2. To beat with a wand or switch. Sc. and dial.
a1585Polwart Flyting w. Montgomerie 755 Tait mow, wilde sow! soone bow, or I wand thee. 1657Attest. Innocency Z. Crofton 10 The Father..bad him if shee offended to take a wand and wand his daughter. 1887S. Chesh. Gloss. s.v. Wan, Bran yo, I'll wan yo'r hide fo' yŏ.
3. trans. To scan the bar code on (an article) using a wand (wand n. 14).
1979Bookseller 22 & 29 Dec. 2693/2 Books could be ‘wanded’ at the point of sale and the information stored on cassettes. 1982Fortune 27 Dec. 100/1 Go to Section X, Jack, and wand all the woofers.
Hence ˈwanding vbl. n.
1585–6Reg. Privy Council Scot. IV. 44 Thay have compellit thame, be onlaying of foull hands and feirfull kynd of wanddingis, to satisfie thair..impostis.
▸ trans. To pass a hand-held metal detector over (a person) for security purposes.
1989Washington Post 19 Aug. c1 Look at that.., they are wanding the Kissingers! Isn't that hysterical? 1998Independent (Nexis) 19 Nov. 2 A prisoner at the maximum-security prison HMP Whitemoor is ‘wanded’ (checked with a metal detector) by a prison officer as he leaves the kitchen. 2004AKC Gaz. June 73 Because she had a defibrillator, the guards couldn't wand her and had to pat her down by hand.
▪ III. wand
obs. pa. tense of wind v.
▪ IV. wand
var. wanned ppl. a. Obs. |