† lind Obs.
Forms: α. 1 lind, linde, 3–5 linde, 3–6 lynde, (5 lyynde), 5–6 lynd, 3– lind. β. 6–8 lyne, line. See also linn2.
[OE. lind str. fem. and linde wk. fem. (Du. linde), OHG. linda, linta (MHG. linde, linte, G. linde), ON. (Sw. and Da.) lind:—OTeut. *lendā, perh.:—pre-Teut. *lent{amacacu}, cogn. w. WAryan *lntā, represented by Gr. ἐλάτη silver fir.]
1. The lime or linden (Tilia Europæa). In ME. poetry often used for a tree of any kind, esp. in phr. under (the) lind.
| α a 700 Epinal Gloss. 1004 Tilia, lind. 972 in Bond Facs. Charters Brit. Mus. (1877) iii. xxx, Of steapan leahe in ða greatan lindan. a 1250 Owl & Night. 1750 Þe wrenne sat in hore lynde. a 1310 in Wright Lyric P. xiv. 45 In May hit murgeth when hit dawes,..ant lef is lyght on lynde. c 1314 Guy Warw. 1205 (A.) And to pleyn vnder þe linde, Þe hert to chacen and þe hinde. c 1320 Sir Tristr. 513 Þe king..teld him vnder linde Þe best, hou it was boun And brouȝt. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. i. 154 Was neuere leef vpon lynde liȝter ther-after. c 1386 Chaucer Clerk's T. 1155 Be ay of chere as light as leef on linde. ? a 1400 Morte Arth. 454 Lugge þi-selfe undyre lynde, as þe leefe thynkes. c 1460 Play Sacram. 389 Iason as Ientylle as euer was the lynde. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 525 Syne vp and doun, als lycht as leif of lynd. 1546 T. Phaer Bk. Childr. (1553) R v a, Ye may still a water, of the floures of lind, it is a tree called in latin tilia. 1796 Morse Amer. Geog. I. 538 Elms, and linds are not here so stately as further north. |
| β c 1510 Lytell Geste R. Hode cccxcviii. in Child Ballads III. 75 On euery syde a rose-garlonde They shot vnder the lyne. [Cf. ccclxxiv, vnder the lynde.] 1587 Harrison England ii. xxii. (1877) i. 342 We haue verie great plentie..of these [trees]..so are we not without the chesnut, the line [etc.]. 1601 Holland Pliny I. 541 As for the Line or Linden tree. 16.. R. Hood & Guy of Gisbourne xxii. in Child Ballads III. 92 How these two yeomen together they mett, Vnder the leaues of lyne. |
¶ 2. ? Used erroneously for ‘wood’.
| a 1400 Stockh. Med. MS. ii. 572 in Anglia XVIII. 321 In an harys skyn do it bynde, And lete it so lyn in feld or lynde. |
3. attrib., as
lind-grove,
lind-tree;
lind-coal, charcoal made of the wood of the lime.
| c 1450 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 569/34 Calea, a lyndtre. 14.. MS. Soc. Antiq. 101 lf. 76 (Halliw. s.v. lyndecole) Half an unce of lyndecole. 1577–87 Holinshed Chron. I. 53/2 Euerie euening he would write twelue tables, such as they vsed to make on the lind tree. 1610 Shakes. Temp. v. i. 12 All prisoners Sir In the Line-grove which weather-fends your Cell. 1621 G. Sandys Ovid's Met. viii. (1632) 279 On Phrygian hills there growes An Oke by a Line-tree. |