▪ I. † maud1 Obs.
[app. a use of the name Maud (:—Mahald) = Matilda.]
A hag, beldam.
| 1532 More Confut. Tindale Wks. 685/1 So I see well Tindall meaneth for hys mother, some olde mother mawde. 1566 L. Wager Marie Magd. (1904) 717 In good faith, when ye ar come to be an old maude, Then it will be best for you to play the baude. |
▪ II. maud2
(mɔːd)
Also 9 mawd.
[Of obscure origin: cf. maldy.]
A grey striped plaid worn by shepherds in the South of Scotland; also a travelling rug or wrap resembling a maud.
| 1787 Mrs. Scott in Burns's Wks. (Chamb.) 66 A' honest Scotsmen loe the maud. 1831 Scott Ct. Rob. Introd. Addr., A grey maud,..completed such an equipment as, since Juvenal's days, has been the livery of the poor scholar. 1885 Advt., Rugs and Mauds of every description. 1901 Daily Chron. 13 July 8/3 A long ‘maud’, broad enough to act as a cover-all from neck to ground. |
| attrib. 1877 W. Ross Past. Work in Covenant. Times v. 93 Shepherds with their maud plaids. |