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▪ I. wynd obs. f. wind. ▪ II. wynd Chiefly Sc. (and north. dial.).|weind| Also 5, 8 wynde (6 vynd, wyne, 9 north. dial. wynnd), 5 winde, 8–9 wind (9 weind). [App. f. the stem of wind v.1 (cf. OE. ᵹewind winding ascent, spiral, etc.); the long vowel indicates an OE. disyllabic form *winde or *wynde.] 1. A narrow street or passage turning off from a main thoroughfare; a narrow cross-street; a lane or alley: a. In Scotland (and northern England).
c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxvii. 4490 Þai til Edynburgh helde þe way, And at þe Freyr Wynde enteryt þai. 1439Charters, etc. of Edinb. (1871) 64 The comon venale callit Sanct Leonardis wynde. 1506Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 617/1 Le Nudryis Vynd infra burgum de Edinburgh. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 174 Seing a possest persone with the deuil..rinn throuch gaites, houses, close, wynes, straits and streits frilie. 1612in Halyburton's Ledger (1867) 336 Bonnetts maid in Leith wynd. 1695Sibbald Autobiog. (1834) 127 A house neer to the head of Blackfriers Wynd. 1727De Foe Tour Gt. Brit. III. 30 Those Side Lanes which they call Wynds. c1730Burt Lett. N. Scotl. (1818) I. 18 Being in my retreat to pass through a long narrow wynde or alley,..a guide was assigned me. 1782Sir J. Sinclair Observ. Scot. Dial. 165 Many narrow lanes, leading..down the sides of the hills; which lanes, from their being generally winding,..are called winds. 1822Scott Nigel ii, A sma' house at the fit of ane of the wynds. 1860Sir J. B. Burke Viciss. Families Ser. ii. 153 The site of Appleby is exceedingly beautiful... From this main street are narrow lanes, called weinds, jutting out towards the river Eden. 1886Masson Edinb. Sketches (1892) 11 A multiplicity of narrow foot-passages called closes, with a few wider and more street-like cuttings called wynds. b. Applied to similar lanes, etc., in other parts.
1863Sir R. Alcock Capital of Tycoon I. 255 Black-teethed women..rush down the wynds and passages [in Yeddo] which lead to the great thoroughfare. 1871Kingsley At Last ii, Fresh from the cities of the Old World, and the short and stunted figures..which crowd our alleys and back wynds. 1894S. Weyman Man in Black viii. 168 The priest passed unharmed through the lowest wynds of Paris. c. Without article.
1812W. Tennant Anster F. vi. xxi, From lane and wynd the sounds of gladness peal. 1856W. E. Aytoun Bothwell 145 That cry..rung through street, and pealed through wynd. d. transf.
1952Dylan Thomas Coll. Poems 170 Small fishes glide Through wynds and shells of drowned Ship towns to pastures of otters. 2. attrib., as wynd house; wynd head, the higher end of a narrow street.
1530Abstr. Protocols Town Clerks Glasgow (1897) IV. 34 Fra the Wyndheid of Glasgw to the Grayfreris. 1665J. Nicoll Diary (Bann. Cl.) 443 [He] errectit ane staige betwixt Niddries and Black Friers wynd head. 1888Barrie When a Man's Single i, The windows of the wynd houses. |