▪ I. † onde, n. Obs.
Forms: 1 anda, onda, 2–5 onde, 4 ounde, 4–5 ond, 5 oonde: cf. ande.
[OE. anda, ǫnda, cogn. w. OS. ando, OHG. anado, ando, anto; ON. andi, önd breath. The southern onde, oonde is almost confined to the OE. senses, and became obs. bef. 1500; the north. ande, aynde in the ON. sense is still in use; see ande.]
1. Strong feeling against a person, ‘animus’; spite, ill-will, envy.
| c 1000 ælfric Gram. 89 Rancor, anda. c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Matt. xxvii. 18 Hiᵹ hyne for andan hym sealdon. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 65 Hwenne we habbeð nið and onde. a 1225 Ancr. R. 194 Of prude, & of onde, & of wreððe. c 1320 Cast. Love 211 Alle þe fendes hedden onde Þat he scholde come to þ{supt} blisful londe. 13.. Guy Warw. (A.) 3083 Toward Gij he bar gret ond. ? a 1366 Chaucer Rom. Rose 148 Amyd saugh I Hate stonde, That for hir wrathe, yre, & onde, Semede to ben..An angry wight, a chideresse. |
2. Strong desire, longing.
| c 1320 Cast. Love 315 Of no þing heo nedden onde Bote him to habben vnder honde. |
3. Emotion, perturbation of mind.
| 1390 Gower Conf. I. 75 Aschamed with a pitous onde Sche tolde unto her housebonde The sothe. |
4. Breath. (More common in the northern form ande, aynd.)
| 13.. Guy Warw. (A.) 316 He no may sitt no stonde, No vnneþe drawen his onde. 13.. K. Alis. 3501 Quyk they ladde him to londe. In his body tho was litel onde. 13.. Cursor M. 534 (Gött.) Als onde [Cott. aand] wid host in brest is bred. 1390 Gower Conf. II. 260 Thries on the water ther Sche gaspeth with a drecchinge onde. |
▪ II. † onde, v. Obs.
Also oonde.
[Midland and southern form of northern ande.]
To breathe: in quot. 1393, ? To sniff, smell.
| 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. xvi. 257 By so þow be sobre of syght, and of tounge boþe, In ondyng, in handlyng, in alle þy fyue wittes. a 1425 Cursor M. 21075 (Trin.) And as slepyng ondeþ ofte [Cott. als a slepand aends oft]. c 1440 York Myst. xiv. 132 Þes beestes..oondis on hym..to warm hym with. |