Ind
(ɪnd)
Forms: 3–6 Ynde, (4 Yngde), 4–9 Inde, 5 Yende, Ynd, 7– Ind.
[a. F. Inde:—L. India (cf. Afric, Greece): see India.]
1. An earlier name of the country now called India; sometimes applied to Asia or the East. Now archaic and poetic.
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 342 Deorewurðe ouer alle gold hordes, and ouer alle ȝimstones of ynde. 13.. K. Alis. 4843 In the londe of Ynde thou mighth lere Nyne thousynde folk of selcouth manere. c 1386 Chaucer Clerk's T. 1143 And sklendre wyues, fieble as in bataille, Beth egre as is a tygre yond in Ynde. 1519 Interl. Four Elem., This sayde north parte is callyd Europa And this south parte callyd affrica This eest parte is callyd ynde But this newe landes founde lately Ben callyd america. 1535 Coverdale 1 Macc. vi. 37 Euery Elephante was couered with a stronge tower of wod..& within it was a man of Inde to rule the beest. 1621 Quarles Div. Poems, Esther 1, Whose Kingdome was to East, and West confin'd, And stretcht from Ethiopia unto Ind. 1821 Byron Sardan. i. ii. 151 Who conquer'd this same golden realm of Ind. 1823 ― Juan xii. ix, From Ceylon, Inde, or far Cathay. 1871 R. Ellis Catullus xi. 2 Whether your Catullus attain to farthest Ind. |
† b. pl. (Cf. Indies.) Obs.
| c 1400 Three Kings Cologne 40 Þer be iij. Indes of þe whyche þes iij. lordes were kynges; and all þes londes & kyngdoms for þe more partye be yles. 1558 W. Warde tr. Alexis' Secr. i. 108 b (Stanf.) Dowe or paste of Borace..broughte latelye oute of the Indes. |
c. With qualification = (East or West) Indies; formerly also the less and the great Ind = Hindustan and the East Indies or the East generally.
| c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints, Thomas 441 In hest [= highest; L. superiorem] ynde, or he fane, he went, & þar throw ferlys schan. c 1400 Mandeville Trav. Prol. (Roxb.) 3 Thurgh..Amazon, Inde þe lesse and þe mare, a grete party. c 1450 Campeden Sidrac in Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry (1840) II. 306 note, His londe lay be grete Inde, Bectorye hight hit as we fynde. 1600 Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. ii. 93 From the east to westerne Inde No iewel is like Rosalinde. |
† 2. pl. Indians, natives of India. Obs.
| c 1380 Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 341 Jewis and Sarasynes, Grekis and Yngdis. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. xli. (MS. Bodl.), The Elephaunte hatte Elephas..but þe Indes [1495 Yndes] clepiþ hym Barro. c 1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. (E.E.T.S.) 67 Of whom of philosophers þe bigynynge of Philosophye hadden Indes, Grecys, Percys and latyns. 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 37 What sholde be the ende of the warre..bytwene hym and the yndes. |
† 3. The Indian language. Obs. rare.
| a 1400–50 Alexander 5012 Scho begynes all in grew & endis in ynde. |
4. attrib. and Comb.
| 1430–40 Lydg. Bochas ix. xxxviii. 217 b, Inde stones vpon their golden tresses. 1433 ― St. Edmund i. 873 Of gold and stonys ynde. 1856 Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh v. Poems 1890 VI. 189 An Ind-born man. |