Middle English Dictionary Entry
wǒund n.
Entry Info
Forms | wǒund n. Also wounde, wond(e, vound, (N) woun, (early) wund(e, wunda, wnde & (error) wode; pl. woundes, etc. & wounde(n(e, wounddes, wondeis, wondus, wonden(e, woindis, wowundes, (early) wunde(n, wunda(n, wundæ(n, wundun & (error) woumdes. |
Etymology | OE wund n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1a.
(a) An injury to a person or an animal involving the piercing, cutting, or laceration of the skin or flesh, a wound; a puncture wound caused by a bee’s sting, an animal’s bite, etc.; also, a gash in an object made by a blow or stroke [quot. c1300 SLeg.Cross];
(b) fig. and in fig. context;
(c) in combs. and selected phrases: ~ bitinge (morsive), biten ~, a wound made by biting or stinging; ~ of deth, dedes (dethes) ~, dedli ~, a fatal wound, death wound; fires ~, the inflammation or reaction resulting from a venomous snake’s bite; hed ~, a wound in the head; love(s ~, fig. a wound inflicted by love; mortal ~, a life-threatening wound; speres ~, a spear wound; the spere the ~ prived, the spere with voide ~, the spear having missed its mark; withouten ~ or wem, unhurt, uninjured; biten a ~, to inflict a wound by biting or stinging; drepen withouten ~, kill (sb.) without inflicting a wound; leien ~ on ~, inflict wound upon wound (on sb.);
(d) a pictorial representation of the gory wounds resulting from war.
Associated quotations
a
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1119 : On þison geare forð ferde se eorl Baldewine of Flandran of þam wundan þe he innan Normandige gefeng.
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)119/25 : Ymme…læig dæig & niht geswogen onmang þan ofslagenan; He wearð þa gehert, & his wunde gewrað, & wolde him sum gener secen.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B)47/11,15 : Wið attorcoppan bite, seoð þare wyrte leaf on wine & ȝecnucode…leȝe þarto; seo wunde sceal sona beon ȝeopenod…Wið wodehundes slite, nim þeos wyrt &…leȝe to þare wunde.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B)73/20-21 : Gif þanne þe wunda swiðe deop si, ȝenim þat wos & wring on ða wunda.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)38/23 : Ðe læce…pinæð on ða wundæ ðæt heo wurðæ ihæled, Forþan ðe ðe mon losæð þe liȝeð yfele forwundod.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Bod 34)84/586 : Þe engles wið smirles of aromaz smireden hire wunden ant bieoden swa þe bruchen of hire bodi, al tobroken of þe beatunge.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)11961 : Frolle…smat an Arðures sceld…he wunde afeng feouwer unchene long.
- c1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)77/1342 : Horn child is hol & sund, & Aþulf biþute wund.
- c1300 SLeg.Cross (LdMisc 108)538 : A rode ich smot a swiþe deop wounde and heo bledde on me þis.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)4412 : Hii hor king yseye Wiþ woundes [B vr. wondene] to Raunced so þat he moste nede deye.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)11397 : He hadde mo þan tuenti wounde ar he were inome.
- c1330 Orfeo (Auch)34/393 : Sum non armes nade & sum þurth þe bodi hadde wounde.
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)501 : He askede of Olyuere…If þat he any wonde bere in ys body þat tyde.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)858/2,3 : Þe poudre þerof ylayde to woundes helpeþ hem…for if it is ylayde to þe wounde, þerof it draweþ oute þe iren.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)910/19 : It helpeþ best aȝens þe bytyng and venym of a wood hound…for it heleþ þe wounde and draweþ out venym and wasteþ it.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)33/16 : We wolen bigynne at a symple wounde maad wiþ knyf or wiþ swerd.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)3369 : The kyng sone is dede…Of a Serpent stonge to the deth And with his wound new…In therber lith.
- c1425 MS Sln.277 in EETS 102 (Sln 277)313/n.3 : Thow schalt wite þat þe boon of þe nose is…depressyd…þat is to sey, born down or broken withoute wounde, [etc.].
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)230/3 : A wounde forsoþe is a kyttinge of the bone made in the bone wiþ a swerde or wiþ som kittinge thing and persinge.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)533 : Wownde, made wythe swerde or other wepne: Stigma.
- a1450 Rev.HWoman (Lngl 29)60/60 : Me þoȝt sho was ful of strange woumdes [read: woundes] as she had bene drawen with cambes.
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)140 : For voundes: This herbe…wole clense a wounde, þouȝ it be olde.
- ?a1450 Poem Hawking (Yale 163)398 : Yf hit happe her to be hurte Wyth wonde or in fote brusure, Lay on salue þer on that hurte.
- (1452) Paston1.60 : Certeyn of the seid felechep…wyth her swerdis maymed hym and gaf hym vij grete woyndis.
- c1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)141/7 : A wounde onis helid, yif it be eftesonis broken it can neuer be helid ayen…And þerfor þough þe batayle of chastite be neuer so medful, yit it is a batayle of suffrauns of strokes.
- c1475(?c1425) Avow.Arth.(Tay 9)44 : Þer moue no dintus him dere, Ne wurche him no wowundes.
- c1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)857 : Whyll a wond ys fresch, yt ys prowyd curabyll be surgery, Þat yf yt procede ouyrlong, yt ys cawse of gret grewans.
- c1475 *Mondeville (Wel 564)157b/b : If a wounde come to a sirurgian in temperate tyme, if þat þe wounde be closid, þe cure may be bigunne in þe þridde day.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)181/21 : The bee is a Passynge wrathfull beste…and for vengeaunce they lewyth thar Styngill in the wonde.
- a1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)23b/11 : In woundes of the hede I alowe not Almondis, for they make a fumosyte that anoyeth þe hede.
- a1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)29a/26 : Wound is an hurtyng newe ymakyd with kervyng of Iryn, Bot byle is an old sore rotid.
- c1500(1446) Morstede Surgery (Hrl 1736)116 : In what maner of wounddes be made in the erys or abowght the erys.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)10416 : Þe vij day sothly…Achilles thurgh chaunse was cherit of his wond.
b
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)883 : So witerly was þat word wounde to hert.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Is.30.26 : In þe dai þat þe lord shall binde þe wounde of his puple…lo, þe name of þe lord shal come fro a-ferr.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.103 : With nede artow so woundid That verray nede vnwrappeth al thy wounde hid.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.5598 : Venus…often haþ socoured Many louere…And hem alleggid of hir woundis grene Þat first were hurt with hir fyre brond.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.2349 : Achille…So hevy was…At his hert his wounde was so kene What for his men & faire Polycene.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)4.m.3.48 : Though thei ne anoye nat the body, yit vices woden to destroyen men by wounde of thought.
- c1450(c1400) Rev.Jul.Norwich (Add 37790)40/31-3 : Oure lorde god…wolde grawnte me thre woundys in my lyfe tyme, that es to saye the woundys of contricyon, the wounde of compassyon, the wounde of wylfulle langgynge to god.
- ?c1450(?c1390) ?Chaucer Merc.B.(Benson-Robinson)5 : Your word wol helen hastily My hertes wounde, while that hit is grene.
- a1500(c1380) Chaucer Rosem.(Benson-Robinson)7 : At a revel whan that I see you daunce, It is an oynement unto my wounde Thogh ye to me ne do no daliaunce.
- a1500(?a1475) Guy(4) (Cmb Ff.2.38)201 : Loue hath geuyn hym soche a wounde That he may not wele stonde.
c
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)17414 : Neddress…wærenn…Off swillc firene kinde Þatt whase stungenn wass þurrh hemm, He swallt þurrh firess wunde.
- a1250 Ancr.(Nero A.14)26/25 : Heo schekeð spere, &…mid schekinde word ȝiueð speres wunden.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)3796 : Nennius…ne mihte finden bote of his hæfued-wunde þe Iulius smat mid honde.
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)424 : Sone he [whale] diueð dun to grunde; he drepeð hem alle wiþuten wunde.
- a1300 A Mayde Cristes (Jes-O 29)156 : He is to-fore alle oþre i-coren; he heleþ alle luue wunde.
- c1330 Horn Child (Auch)416 : Horn in þat ich stounde Ȝaf þe maiden loue wounde, So neiȝe her hert it ȝede.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)4582 : He aueng deþes wounde…Ac overcome nas he noȝt.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Kings 19.10 : Þe spere forsoþe, þe wownde pryued [WB(2): with voide wounde], is born in to þe wal & dauyd fleyȝ.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Roy 1.B.6)Apoc.13.3 : I siȝe oon of his heedis, as slayn in to deeth, and the wounde of his deeth is curid.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)19721 : In a lep men lete him dun Vte ouer þe walles o þe tun Wit-vten ani wond or weme.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)17/16 : A wounde þat is biten wiþ an hound schal oþerwise be heelid þan he þat is biten with a wood hound.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.1514 : I wil hir kepe…For whom I had so many mortal wounde At Troye toun, or þat I hir wan.
- ?a1425 Chauliac(1) (NY 12:Wallner)3.3/22 : Of a wounde bityng…morsiue [Ch.(2): a bytyn wounde] or venemous.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)218/1 : Of a biten wounde [Ch.(1): wonde morsyue] and venymouse: Of suche maner of woundes I passe lyȝtly forþ, for þai happen ful selden.
- c1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)11784 : A paynym spened a spere and…Thurght þe body he con hym bere and gaf hym dedes wound.
- ?c1450 Iff a man (Stockh 10.90)302/297 : Ȝif a gret wounde with beste be betyn…Take garlek and hony and an eyis ȝelke And do hem to-gedyr, [etc.].
- a1475 Ihu that alle this (Hnt HM 142)27 : Lord, þou was…scourged…They leyde on þe wounde on wounde.
- c1475 Body Pol.(Cmb Kk.1.5)99/4 : Iulius Cesar was slayn…by the meanes of Brutus and Cassius and diuerse othir senatours whiche gaue him more than xxij dedly woundis.
- a1500(a1400) Ipom.(1) (Chet 8009)8880 : He commaundythe…To lovys wounde ye lay no salle [read: salue; rime: behalue].
- c1450(a1400) Libeaus (Clg A.2)1607 : Ayder prouede yn þat stounde To ȝeue oþer dedys wounde.
- a1500 Rich.(Dc 228)93/5 : Bothe hors and man he fel to gronde, Wel ny he hadde his dedes wonde.
d
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2002 : Withinne the temple of myghty Mars…First on the wal was peynted a forest…Ther say I…the derke ymagynynge Of felonye…The tresoun of the mordryng in the bed, The open werre with woundes al bibled…Al ful of chirkyng was that sory place.
1b.
Theol. (a) Any of the wounds which Crist suffered during the Passion or Crucifixion; also in fig. context; herte (spere) ~, the spear wound made in Christ’s side as he hung upon the cross; (b) woundes five (two and thre), five woundes, the five wounds suffered by Christ upon the cross;
(c) in oaths and asseverations: bi cristes woundes five, for his woundes five, etc.;
(d) ~ stedes, woundes stede, the places on the figure of Christ on a crucifix which represent the five wounds on his body.
Associated quotations
a
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.Nicod.(Vsp D.14)80/1 : Heo sæden þæt heo þone Hælend þe onhangen wæs, gesegen on Galilea…& Thomas his wunden sceawede.
- a1150(c1125) Vsp.D.Hom.Elucid.(Vsp D.14)144/32 : Æt þan niȝeðen siðen…Thomas grapode his wunden.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)114/14 : Synfulle men sceolen iseon þa wundæn & þa sar on ure Drihtne.
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)33 : Þe wundes þat hie on him makeden ben þe manifeald synnes þe hie on him brohten.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)151/11 : Nempne ofte iesu, cleope his passiunes help…flih to his wunden…Creop in ham wið þi þoht.
- ?c1250 Somer is comen & (Eg 613)20 : He [Jesus] heuede me, for an appel of a tre ibunde; He brac þe bond þat was so strong wit wunde.
- a1300 Loke to þi louerd (StJ-C A.15)4 : Vor loke hu his heued biis mid þornes bi-wnde and to his neb so bispet and to þe spere-wnde.
- a1325 Wyth was hys (Bod 42)2 : Blod was his faire neb, his wnden depe an uide; starke waren his armes hi-spred op-on þe rode.
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)78/2223 : For ase wymman com of þe ryb Of þe mannes ryȝt syde, So holyche[rche], spouse of god, Sprang of þane wonden wyde.
- c1350 Ayenb.App.(Arun 57)266/28 : Þe wounden and þe toknen of þe passion he heþ ine his bodye.
- 1372 Þe rede stremes (Adv 18.7.21)p.40 : Respiciamus…Gustu of Cristis drink þe bitternesse; Tactu of Cristis wondis þe sarpnesse.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Roy 1.B.6)1 Pet.2.24 : He him silf suffride, or bar, oure synnes in his body…bi whois wounde ȝe ben heelid.
- a1400(?a1325) Bonav.Medit.(1) (Hrl 1701)524 : Þe pyler…sheweþ þe blode of hys woundyn.
- a1425 Dial.Reason & A.(Cmb Ii.6.39)41/10 : Suffre þi mynde to wete þi mete in Cristes wondes þou myght fynde no betere sause to make þi mete sauery.
- c1425 Castle Love(2) (Eg 927)821 : Thei trowed noȝt that he was vprisen…Til he into Crist hert-wond hade put his hand.
- a1450 Treat.Horses (Sln 2584)91/101 : I coniure…þat þou rankil noþer swelle…no more þan doþ þe wonde þat longeus made with þe spere in þe riȝt side of our lord ihesus crist.
- c1450 Bk.GGrace (Eg 2006)326/2 : Als a garnette gladdys a mans herte, ryght so my wondeys makes a soule ioye in me.
- c1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)19/18-19 : Renne in þi mynde fro wownde to wownde syghing and privily sobbyng now for þe nayles.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)146/6 : Sacramentys þer xul be vij, Wonnyn þurowe þay childys wounde.
- a1500 Nicod.(4) (Hrl 149)75 : Oute of that wownde ranne bloode and watyr, whych avaled downe by the speere and touched hys honde.
- ?a1525(?a1475) Play Sacr.(Dub 652)934 : We haue greuyd owr Lord on grovnd…With daggers styckyd hym with greuos wonde.
b
- a1200 Trin.Hom.Creed (Trin-C B.14.52)19 : Ure louerd ihesu crist þurh his holie fif wunden shedde his blod and þat gef mankin to drinken and þarmide ut of hem þat deaðliche atter.
- a1250 Cristes milde moder (Nero A.14)102 : Þet ich ðe wreðede sume siðe hit me reoweð sore; Vor cristes fif wunden ðu ȝif me milce and ore.
- a1275 Louerd crist þou (Trin-C B.14.39)20 : Deet he þolede up-on þe tre ant wnden boþen two ant þre.
- a1300 I-hereþ nv one (Jes-O 29)622 : He wes a-ryse from deþe to lyue Þet vs alle bouhte myd his wndes fyue.
- c1300 SLeg.Cross (LdMisc 108)30 : He a-ros to liue Fram deþe…Mid is woundene fiue.
- a1350 SLeg.Cross (Ashm 43)258 : He aros to lyue From deþe þen þridde dai myd is wounden viue.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2510 : He…suffred for our sake sore wondes five.
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)642 : Alle his afyaunce vpon folde watz in þe fyue woundez.
- a1450 SChart.Chr.(Hrl 3775)p.457 : I, Jhesus of Nazareth, For love of man haue souffred deth Upon a crosse, wyth wondys fyve.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)345/182 : He the saue with woundys fyfe.
c
- c1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)83/1423 : Crist for his wundes fiue To niȝt me þuder driue.
- a1325 Heil beo þou Marie Mylde (StJ-C S.30)19 : For þe loue of…ihesu…& for his woundes fiue þat runnen alle a-blode, Þou help me out of senne, ladi fayr & gode.
- a1350 St.Alex.(1) (LdMisc 108)283 : Iesu crist…grante þe, for his wondes fiue, þat þou myttest him se in þine lyue.
- a1425(c1333-52) Minot Poems (Glb E.9)4/91 : Ihesu, for þi woundes fiue, In Ingland help vs to haue pese.
- a1450(a1400) Athelston144 : Sodaynly þan schalt þou dy, Be Crystys woundys fyue.
- a1450(a1425) Mirk IPP (Cld A.2)871 : Hast þou be wonet to swere als By goddes bones or herte, fals, What by hys woundes, nayles, or tre.
- c1475 Kynge of grace (Brm)252 : Ȝe wer woll lef for to swere, By myn eyne and be myn ere…Man, yt was to the woll ryffe, To sweryn be my wondys fyve.
- a1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.237 : Ȝif he swere be Godis body, herte, eyne, wondis, or ony swiche oþer…he is forsworn.
d
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)72/25 : Lanhure i þe nest of hire ancre hus habbe his iliche, þet is þe crucifix, bihalde ofte þron & cusse þe wunde studen [Cleo: wunden stude].
1c.
The spiritual blemish or imperfection associated with or caused by sin or vice; also, a sin; ~ of sinne, sinne(s ~; taken of woundes, to assume (another’s) evil ways.
Associated quotations
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)17464 : He beþ hæledd þurrh Cristess dæþ Off alle sinness wundess.
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)41 : Alle þo þe here synnen forleteð and beteð, he heleð here synwunden mid fulcnege.
- a1250 Orison Lord (Lamb 487)189 (2nd occurrence) : Þine wunden healen þe wunden of mi saule.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)148/17 : Ase of þe bodye alsuo of þe herte, me ssel zueteliche þe wonden agrayþi.
- c1350 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 874)p.74 : Þise oþere Men…ne ben nouȝth sleyn in þise woundes &…ne takeþ no penaunce of þe werkes of her hondes.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)3 Kings 8.38 : Yf a man knowe þe wounde of his herte & strecche out his hondis in þis hous, þou schalt heren in heuene.
- c1400 Apoc.(2) (Hrl 171)91/16 : Go ȝe my peple out of Babiloyne, & be ȝe not partyners of hir trespassis, þat ȝe take not of hir woundis, for hir synnys ben comen to heuene, and God haþ recordid of hir wickidnessis.
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)287/28 : Fro al mankynde þe wounde of synne was take awey upon þe crosse, which wounde Adam by his synne brouȝte yn.
- a1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)6/12 : Who so knowiþ þe woundis of his herte, þat is his giltis þat he haþ don aȝen God…þou schalt here his preier in heuene.
- c1450(c1400) Rev.Jul.Norwich (Add 37790)66/13-14 : He takes pennaunce for ylke a synne…his woundes er sene before god, nowht as woundes bot as wyrschippes.
- c1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)122/11 : Euery perfight soule…armeth here ayenst þe relef and wondes wich is lefte of vices lest þey enfestre and stynke.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)26.15 : God my hele…salues the wounde of my syn.
- 1530(c1450) Mirror Our Lady (Fawkes)63 : By the wounde of originall synne…the corrupte body is so heuy.
2.
Surg. An incision or a cut deliberately made on a part of the body to drain fluid; also, a superficial scratch or incision made in the skin as part of a curative procedure.
Associated quotations
- ?a1200(?OE) PDidax.(Hrl 6258b)45/1 : Æfter þæt seo blodlæse si ȝefylled, þu hine scealt scearpiȝean; nim þann sealt and gnid þa wunda mid.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)127b/a : Ȝif…þe pacient þer wiþ be pacient & sufferinge, þen it is conuenient þat þu make a newe wounde in þe moste hongynge and þe lowest place on þe same side.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)145b/a : It were good…for to make a newe wounde in þe partye þat is moste dependaunt þat þe rotennesse and þe quiture myȝte passen aweye at þe newe wounde.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)166/30 : Drawe þou vp þe skyn of þe wombe…perse it wiþ a rasoure…so þat þe water may goo oute…late þe skynne falle downe þat it close þe wounde of cyphac.
- a1450 Dur-CRO.Bk.Hawking (Dur-CRO Roll D/X/76/7)22/6 : Sclyt þer þe sore is…and take a payr of sesurs and cut away sumwhate on euery syde…And tak a lynen cloth…and anoynte þe wonde with Bawme iv daies, and þen with Popilion to þe tyme scho be hole.
3.
Pathol. (a) An external sore or ulcer usu. contracted through disease, a superficial lesion on the body of a person or an animal; ~ of lepre, a leprous lesion; ~ spring, an ulcerous sore; al on on ~, of a person: covered with sores, scabious; (b) an internal lesion or ulceration in the body of a person or an animal.
Associated quotations
a
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)126/1 : Job sæt þa sarlice, eall on anre wunde, uppen his mixene, & ascrop þa weormes of his lice mid anen crocscearde.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B)231/17 : Cnuc þisse wyrte wurtruma mid ele…þan ȝemete þe þu clyþam wyrce, leȝe to þam wundun.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.MQuad.(Hrl 6258B)261/4 : Wið wundsprinȝum on anwlitan rammes lungane smæl tocorfan & to ðan sare ȝeled; sona hit ȝehaleð.
- c1350 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 874)p.125 : Þe first Aungel went & shad his phiole in erþe & þere is made a grete wounde [vr. vound] to men þat han þe merk of þe beest.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Roy 1.B.6)Apoc.16.11 : Thei blasfemeden God of heuen, for sorowis and her woundis.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)6.1014 : A pouere lazre…lai…in gret destresse Acold and hungred ate gate…The houndes comen fro the halle…And as he lay there forto die, The woundes of his maladie Thei licken forto don him ese.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)910/1 : Garleke…bredeþ þurst and brediþ whelkes and woundes in þe body if it is yleyd þerto.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)6648 : Þe ryche mannes houndes Come and lykked Lazares woundes.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Lev.13.2 : A man in whos skyn and fleisch rysith dyuerse colour, ether whelke, ethir as sum schynynge thing, that is, a wounde [WB(1): plaage] of lepre, he schal be brouȝt to Aaron preest.
- a1450 Treat.Horses (Sln 2584)99/186-9 : For to hele þe wondes of þe farcyn: Tak floure of whete & hony & medle hem to-geder & ley to þe sore, & aftur pouder of piper & caste in þe wondus.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)84/1 : He…was sodanlie strekyn with a wown þat all men myght se.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)56b/a : The cure of vlcus, þat is to seyn, an old wounde.
b
- ?a1200(?OE) PDidax.(Hrl 6258b)51/8 : Wunda on þan þearnum [read: þearmum]…to arsganga gæþ, þanne þæt hym fram gæþ, byþ swyþe wyþ blode ȝemenged.
- (c1375) Chaucer CT.Mk.(Manly-Rickert)B.3790 : God…hym so soore smoot With invisible wounde…That in hise guttes carf it so.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)44/2 : Þis clistir is good for to helyn wounndis, also þat comyth of þe flyx dicentorie.
- a1475 Gilb.Angl.(Wel 537)249/13 : Ȝyue him þe ballis þat souden woundis þat ben withynforþe, þe whiche shulen be tolde in þe pissing of blode.
- a1500 Diseases Women(3) (Yale-M 47)65/654 : Woundes of þe moder ben helyd with þe ius of plantayn.
4.
The mark left by a healed wound or sore, a scar, cicatrix; also, the incrustation which forms over a wound or sore during healing, a scab; also in fig. context; ~ festred (underwoxen, waxing under), hid (olde) ~.
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- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)100/33 : Þæt is swyðe mycel hæle læcedom, þæt we eft ne gecerren to þan unrihten, þe we ær geandettan, ne we ne geednywigen þa dolhswaðe þære ærrena wunden.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Jer.8.22 : Whi thanne the hid wounde of the doȝter of my puple is not al helid?
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Lev.13.19 : The flesh and the skynne, in the whiche a bocche is growun, and helid, and in the place of the bocche aperith a fel wounde [L cicatrix], whijt or derk reed, the man shal be brouȝt to the preest.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)22/11 : The firste partie is vnyuersaliche of þe face…To varyoles and of here woundes wexynge vnder, of gutta rosacea, and of blaynes þat beeþ in þe face.
- ?a1440 Hortus (Brist-U)265 : Cicatrix is a wode [read: wonde] vnder woxen.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)533 : Wownde, festryd: Cicatrix.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)142b : A wounde…Cicatrix, Citricula.
- ?a1500 Lndsb.Nominale (Lndsb)791/21 : Sicatrix: a old wownde.
5.
(a) A blow, stroke, stripe; also fig.; at on ~, with a single blow;
(b) a pestilence, plague; a pestilential sickness, disease; the ten woundes of egipte, the ten plagues of Egypt sent by God to punish the Egyptians;
(c) injury, damage, harm.
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- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))1 Mac.5.34 : Thei han smyten hem with grete wounde, and there fellen doun of hem in that day almest eiȝt thousand of men.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))2 Mac.3.26 : Two ȝunge apperiden, faire in vertu…and on eche sijd scourgiden hym with oute ceesyng, with many woundis betynge.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))2 Mac.6.30 : Bot whan he shulde be slayn with woundis, he inwardly sorewide and saide, [etc.].
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)314/12 : Þe seruaunt þat is not ichastised wiþ wordes moste be ichastisid wiþ woundis.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)2274 : He smoot Jophas vpon þe mounde Jn to þe sadel at one wounde.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.884 : Diomede with a darte I-grounde Gan hame at hym a dedly mortal wounde; His moder Venus gan anoon hym schroude Vnder…a mysty cloude.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)533 : Wownde…plaga.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)708/12 : Plaga: a wonde.
- 1530(c1450) Mirror Our Lady (Fawkes)68 : The seruant that knowyth his lordes wyl & dothe yt not shal be beten with many woundes.
b
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))2 Mac.9.5 : The Lord…smote hym with a wound incurable and inuisible…an hard sorewe of entraylis toke hym, and bittir tourmentis of ynward thingis.
- ?a1400 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Rwl C.750)p.82 : Þei han pouste…to turne þe water to blood & forto smiȝte þe erþe wiþ what wondes [Hrl: wonder; vr. plage; F plaie] þat þei wolen.
- a1400 WBible(1) (Dub 75)Apoc.11.6 : Al wounde [vr. a wonde; Roy: Thei han power on watirs of turnynge hem in to blood and for to smyte the erthe with al plage].
- c1450(1369) Chaucer BD (Benson-Robinson)1207 : I trowe hyt was in the dismal, That was the ten woundes of Egipte.
c
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))1 Mac.14.36 : Heithen men…defouliden all thingus…and ȝauen grete wounde to the citee [WB(2): chastite; L castitati].
6.
Med. The word ‘wound’ as a technical term or concept.
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- ?a1425 Chauliac(1) (NY 12:Wallner)3.6/1 : ‘Wonde’ forsoþ and ‘vlcere’ ar one same þing in grece translacioun; In arabice þai ar different.
- ?a1425 Chauliac(1) (NY 12:Wallner)3.6/7 : Haly Abbas…haldeþ ‘wonde’ and ‘plage’ þe same.
7.
In proverbs.
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- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)23 : Hu mei þe leche þe lechinen þa hwile þet iren sticat in þine wunde?
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)174/27 : Þe leche ne may naȝt werche mid þe zike bote-yef he yzi his wonde.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Prov.27.6 : Betere ben þe woundis of þe loouere þan þe gileful kosses of þe hatere.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)26847 : A thirl sinkes þe schipp to grund, And oft man deies of a wond.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)26924 : And quils þat neunes [Frf: irene] es in wonde Es plaster nan mai mak it sond.
- a1400 CMSoul (Bod 923)275 : Harde hit is to heele a wounde þat is ofte broken.
- c1400 Bk.Mother (Bod 416)202/6 : Þe Wise Man seiþ: ‘Bettur ben þe woundes of þe louere þan þe cosses of þe flaterere.’
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)1.858 : Whoso list have helyng of his leche, To hym byhoveth first unwre his wownde.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)1966 : The helthe of loue mut be founde Where as they token firste her wounde.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)1.pr.4.6 : Yif thou abidest after helpe of thi leche, the byhoveth discovre thy wownde.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)1.6993 : A blynd archer with arwes sharp grounde Off aventure yeueth many a mortal wounde.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)1248 : Þus men seys, & ofte ys founde, Of old sor comeþ greuous wounde.
- a1450 Serm.Pater N.(Cmb Dd.11.89)218 : Men seyen in olde speche: Grene wounde nys bote game, and ole synne maketh newe schame.
- c1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 103)189/9 : A wounde or a sore often hurte is ful hard to makyn hole: Vulnus iteratum tardius sanatur.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)161/34 : Lyghtyre is a fressh wounde to hele than a festrid.
8.
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- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)284/28 : Fatnes…filliþ and replieþ þe holownes and woundes [vr. voidons] of þe body [L vacuitatis et concauitatis corporis].
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. wound.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense 1a.(c)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. bitten wound.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense 1a.(c)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. deadly wound.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense 1a.(c)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. head wound.