† swind, v. Obs.
Also 4 swynde.
[OE. swindan, pa. tense swand, swundon, pa. pple. -swunden = OHG. suuintan, suindan, pa. tense suant, (MHG. swinden, occas. swinten, G. schwinden, schwand, geschwunden, whence Da. svinde), a formation with -nd- on the Teut. root swī̆- (cf. Icel. sv{iacu}a to abate), parallel to a formation with -n-, repr. by OHG. swînan (MHG. swînen, G. schweinen) of the same meaning, MLG. swînen to be slow, ON. svina to subside, and to a formation with -m-, repr. by swime and the related forms.]
intr. To waste away, languish; to dwindle, decrease; to vanish, disappear. Hence † swinden ppl. a., enfeebled, enervated (cf. aswind 2, forswounden).
| c 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. iv. xxv. (1899) 500 Ealle..oððe hefiᵹe slæpe swundon, oððe to synnum wacedon. c 1000 Ags. Ps. (Spelman) xxxviii. 15 [xxxix. 11] Swindan ðu dydest..sawle his. a 1200 Moral Ode 57 in O.E. Hom. I. 163 Vre swinc and ure tilþe is ofte iwoned to swinden. c 1275 Lay. 23670 Þanne mai me singe Of one swindene kinge Þat his beot haueþ imaked And his cniht-sipe forsake. 13.. St. Erkenwolde 342 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 274 Sodenly his swete chere swyndid & faylide. a 1327 Pol. Songs (Camden) 150 Thus me pileth the pore that is of lute pris: Nede in swot and in swynk swynde mot swo. a 1380 Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. xxviii. 56 Heil lenere and louere of largenesse, Swete and swettest þat neuer may swynde. |