† goundn.
Obsolete.
Foul matter, esp. that secreted in the eye.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > excretions from eye > [noun]
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wateriness?1550
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eye-brine1616
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun] > discharge of putrid matter > from eyes
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c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 46 [Swelling in the neck] Gif se gund biþ þonne onginnende, sio sealf hine todrifþ.
c1325 Gloss. W. de Biblesw. in T. Wright Voc. 144–5 Vostre regardz est gracious Mès vos oeyz sunt jaciouz [glossed gundy] Des oiez outez la jacye [glossed the gunde].
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 8624 Clenseth a-way [from the eye] al ordure, The gownde, & euery thyng vnpure.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 206/2 Gownde of þe eye, ridda, albugo.
1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ Gound,..sordes oculorum condensatæ per totum agrum Linc. vulgatissime appellantur.
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