Middle English Dictionary Entry

yond adv.
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Note: Cp. biyonde adv.
1.
(a) At a distance, over there, yonder; her and ~, here and there; (b) ~ of, ?from (a place); ?far away from (a place); (c) to that place, there; comen (gon, leden) ~; hider and ~, this way and that, back and forth; (d) in comb. with another adv., used adverbially with locative function: ~ aboven, there above, in heaven; ~ adoun, down in that place, on earth; fer ~, far away; also, in comb. with an interj.: lo ~, behold over there (the sun).