† ˈoundy, a. Obs.
Also 4–5 owndy, ownde, 6 oundé.
[a. F. ondé, -ée (in 14th c. ondeit Godef. Compl.):—L. undāt-um, f. undāre to wave, curl, unda wave.]
Waved, wavy; in Her. = undee.
| c 1384 Chaucer H. Fame iii. 296 Hir heere that ovndye [v.r. owndy] was and crips. [1599 Thynne Animadv. (1875) 36 Her heare was oundye, that is, layed in rooles vppone and downe, lyke waues of water when they are styrred with the winde.] ? a 1400 Morte Arth. 193 Ownde of azure alle ouer. a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 79 b, The other side clothe of Tissue of silver, and clothe of gold of Tissue entered ounde the one with y⊇ other, the ounde is warke wavyng up and doune,..and on the other side that was ounde was sette with signes called cifers of fine gold. |
[The passage from Hall's Chron. is erroneously reprinted in A. Fleming's Holinshed (1587) III. 860/1, with ound for ounde; it is misunderstood by Halliwell and explained as n. ounde ‘a kind of lace, a curl’. The imaginary n. so explained appears in Cent. Dict. and Funk's Standard in the form ound.]