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▪ I. laund Obs. exc. arch.|lɔːnd| Forms: 4–6 launde, 5–9 lawnd(e, (5, 7 land, 7 launt), 6– laund. See also lawn n.2 [a. OF. launde, F. lande wooded ground, a. OCeltic *landā (Irish lann, Welsh llan, Breton lann): see land n.1] An open space among woods, a glade (= L. saltus); untilled ground, pasture.
1340Ayenb. 216 Þe fole wyfmen þet guoþ mid stondind..nhicke as hert ine launde. 13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 1209 Loude alarom vpon launde lulted was þenne. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 251 Som of hem com out of hilles and laundes, þere mannes help failede. c1425Wyntoun Cron. vii. i. 50 Thare thai fand A fayre brade land and a plesand. 15..Adam Bel 419 in Ritson Anc. P.P. 21 Then went they down into a launde, These noble archares all thre. 1551Robinson tr. More's Utop. 41 You loste no small quantity of grounde by forestes, chases, laundes, and parkes. 1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, iii. i. 2 Through this Laund anon the Deere will come. 1631R. Brathwait Whimzies, Forrester 37 The lawnd is his temple, the birds his quirresters. 1650T. Bayly Herba Parietis 3 A..bridge, between which and the palace, was a stately launt. 1700Dryden Fables, Palamon & Arc. iii. 898 That grove for evergreen, that conscious lawnd Where he with Palamon fought hand to hand. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Lawnd, a lawn. 1891Atkinson Last of Giant Killers 204 Through the launds and glades, out on to the moor. attrib.a1440Sir Degrev. 596 Undir a lynd or thei lente, By a launde syde. c1440Promp. Parv. 291/1 Lawnde kepare, salator. 1523Fitzherb. Surv. 5 All the grounde within pale or hedge as well the launde grounde as of the wode grounde. ▪ II. laund(e obs. form of lawn n.1 (fine linen). |