▪ I. rerd(e, n. Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 1–3 reord(e, 3 rorde, 4–5 rurd(e, ruerde, rewerd; 3–4 rerde, 3–6 rerd, 5 rerid, reryd, 6 (8–9) reird, 8–9 reerd; 4 rearde, 6, 9 reard, 8 raird.
[OE. reord voice, cry, = OHG. rarta voice, melody, Goth. razda voice, speech, language, ON. rödd, radd- voice, song: the further etym. is uncertain. After 1400 almost exclusively Sc., usually in senses 2 b and 3.]
† 1. Voice, utterance, cry. Obs.
| Beowulf 2556 Hordweard oncniow mannes reorde. a 900 Cynewulf Christ 510 Englas tweᵹen..cleopedon..ofer wera menᵹu beorhtan reorde. c 1000 Ags. Ps. (Th.) cxxxvii. 5 Eorðan kyningas..ᵹehyrdan hlude reorde, þines muðes..word. c 1200 Ormin 16664 Þu mahht herenn gastess rerd Wiþþ erþliȝ flæshess ære. a 1250 Owl & Night. 311 Ȝet thu..telst that ich ne can noȝt singe, Ac al mi rorde [v.r. reorde] is woning. a 1300 Vox & Wolf 114 in Hazl. E.P.P. I. 61 He com to the putte, thene vox i-herde; He him kneu wel by his rerde. 1340 Ayenb. 211 Lhord god yhyer mine bene and mine rearde þet ich grede to þe. a 1400–50 Alexander 387 With a renyst reryd þis reson he said. |
2. A loud or noisy cry; noise or din made by crying or roaring; † a noisy tongue.
| 13.. Seuyn Sag. (W.) 910 He criede and makede rewli rerd. 13.. E.E. Allit. P. B. 390 Summe..Rwly wyth a loud rurd rored for drede. c 1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 2073 Than kest he up so lathly rerde, Ful mani folk myht he have ferde. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. i. ix. 804 Þa bestis..oyssis wiþ gret rerde to rare. c 1480 Henryson Mor. Fab. v. 23 Ryfand his hair, he cryit with ane reird. 1721 Kelly Scot. Prov. 44 A house with a Reek, and a Wife with a Reerd will soon make a Man run to the Door. 1819 Hogg Jacobite Relics, Q. Anne vi, Then she ga'e a reirde, Made a' the smiths to glowr. |
b. Uproar or clamour made by a number of persons (or animals).
| 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xxxiii. 94 Thik was the clud of kayis and crawis,..The rerd of thame raiss to the sky. 1536 Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) II. 34 Na man wist quhat wes to be done, throw reird of men and beistis. a 1578 Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 86 [They] brak about him witht sic ane reird and clamour. 1718 Ramsay Christ's Kirk Gr. iii. xix, Sic a reird ran thro' the rout. 1791 J. Learmont Poems 167 Their raird rang rudely owr the lift. 1822 Scott Nigel ii, Then the reird raise, and..murdered I suld hae been, without remeid. 1894 Northumbld. Gloss., Reard, Reerd, riot, confusion. |
3. Noise or din of any kind.
| c 1400 Destr. Troy 12697 Þe remnond..Herd þe rurde & þe ryfte of þe rank schippis. c 1470 Henry Wallace viii. 208 Gret rerd thar rais all sammyn quhar thai ryd. 1508 Dunbar Gold. Targe 241 For reird it semyt that the raynbow brak. 1536 Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 75 Sa huge nois rais be reird and sowne of bellis. 1585 Jas. I. Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 13 With threatning thunders, making monstrous reard. 1715 Ramsay Christ's Kirk Gr. ii. xiii, Back gate..she loot a fearfu' raird. 1806 R. Jamieson Pop. Ballads I. 243 Till far and near, wood, rock and cave, The thunderin' reird return. |
▪ II. rerd(e, v. Obs. exc. Sc.
Forms: 1 (riord-), reordian, 2 -ien, 5–6 rerde, reird, 6 reard, 6 (9) raird.
[OE. reordian, f. reord: see prec.]
† 1. intr. To speak, discourse. Obs.
| Beowulf 3025 Sceal..se wonna hrefn..fela reordian. a 900 Cynewulf Christ 196 Þa seo femne..þus reordode. a 1000 Genesis 1253 Þa reordade rodera waldend..& þa worde cwæð. c 1205 Lay. 22173 He reordien gan and þas word sæide. |
2. To make a noise; to roar, resound, etc.
| c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. lxxvii. 608 (Wemyss), Syne efter it begouth to wax, And within him rerd and rax. c 1470 Gol. & Gaw. 914 The rochis reirdit vith the rasch, quhen thai samyne rane. 1513 Douglas æneis viii. v. 68 The wod resoundis schill,..The hillis reirdis. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 233 With buglis blast quhill rairdit all the ryce. 1585 Montgomerie Sonnets xii, Can thunder reird the higher for a horne? 1824 Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl. 403 Ice is said to be rairding, when it is cracking. |
Hence ˈrerding vbl. n. and ppl. a. Also † ˈrerdour, clamour, tumult. Obs. rare—1.
| 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 277 Sic reirdour raiss amang thame vp and doun. Ibid. II. 462 Quhill all the rochis with thair reirding rang. 1591–1603 Jas. I Sonett, Poet. Exercises, The rearding thunders, and the blustering winds. |