† greund Obs.
Also 6 grewand, -end, 6–9 grewnd, 9 grune.
[app. a contracted form of ME. grehund greyhound.]
| c 1420 Anturs of Arth. 126 (Douce MS.) The grete greundes were agast of þe gryme bere. 1513 in Glover Hist. Derby (1829) I. App. 61 A Greundes hed sylver and sabull quartered. 1519 Presentm. Juries in Surtees Misc. (1888) 32 That no man kepe no hown, grewand, nor spanzell. 15.. Sir P. Draycott in Lodge Illustr. (1791) I. 6 They [staggys] was not only cowrssyd w{supt} sum grewnds, but also w{supt} horsmen. 1567 Golding Ovid's Met. vii. 93 She gaue me eke a goodly Grewnd. 1591 Harington Orl. Fur. xlvi. cxxi, Still the Grewnd prevailes. 1816 Sporting Mag. XLVIII. 204/1 Those spaded bitches appeared to have been grunes or greyhounds. 1865 Derbysh. Gloss. in Reliquary V. 159/2 Grewnd, a greyhound. |