▪ I. † ˈgrounden, ppl. a. Obs.
Forms: see grind v.1
[pa. pple. of grind v.1]
1. Of weapons: Sharpened by grinding.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 21437 Scarp grunden knijf in hand he bar. c 1400 Rowland & O. 57 A Saraȝene..With grymly grownden gare. c 1400 Melayne 1554 Full grym strokes he ouer þam satt, With growndyn speris and grym. c 1470 Henry Wallace ii. 64 The grounden suerd throuch out his cost it schar. 1513 Douglas æneis iv. iv. 41 His grundin dartis clattering by his syde. 1557 North tr. Gueuara's Diall Pr. 258 b/2 You feare vs not with sharpe grounden swoordes and daggers. a 1650 Death Robin Hood 75 in Furnivall Percy Folio I. 55 Red Roger with a grounding glave thrust him through the milke white side. |
2. Of substances: Ground, brayed, crushed.
| 13.. Metr. Hom. (Vernon MS.) in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LVII. 308 Summe smered hire Mouþ withoute with grounden Mustard. c 1386 Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. 222 Our Orpyment and sublymed Mercurie, Oure grounden litarge, [etc.]. c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 1123 Grounden shellis dight With flour of lym. c 1430 Two Cookery-bks. 38 Take groundyn Porke, & knede it with Spicerye. |
▪ II. grounden
obs. pa. pple. of grind v.