▪ I. † stond Obs.
[App. a dial. variant of stand n., adopted by certain writers in special uses.]
1. Falconry. Cf. stand n.1 7.
| 1580–3 Greene Mamillia i. 4 b, The hawke that commeth at the first cal, wil neuer be stedfast on the stond. 1587 ― Carde of Fancie (1593) E 3 b, The Hawke that bates at euerie cast of the Lure will neuer be stedfast on the stonde. |
2. Impediment, stoppage. (Only in Bacon.)
| 1605 Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xxii. §10 That..you may work out the knots and stondes of the mind. 1612 ― Ess., Studies (Arb.) 11 Nay, thear is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies. a 1626 ― Disc. touching Helps Intell. Powers Resusc. (1657) 277 The Removing of the Stonds, and Impediments, of the Mind, doth often clear, the passage, and Current, to a Mans Fortune. |
▪ II. stond(e
obs. forms of stand, stound.