laund

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"It iss under the Eagle Cliff where ye came to laund, I make no doot Well, I suppose it was; at least, there is a range of cliffs close to the place where our raft struck Oo ay--but it iss not the wee precipices, it iss the big hull behind them that we ca' the Eagle Cliff Oh, indeed!

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  1. A plain sprinkled with trees or brush; an open space between woods; a park. In a launde upon a hill of flouris Was set this noble goddesse Nature; Of braunchis were hire hallis and hire bouris. Chaucer, Parliament of Fowls, l. 302. Loe from the hill above on th' other side, Through the wide lawnds, they gan to take their course. Surrey, Æneid, iv. A Forest-Nymph, and one of chaste Diana's charge, Imploy'd in woods and launds her deer to feed and kill. Drayton, Polyolbion, ii. 89. Under this thick-grown brake we'll shroud ourselves, For through this laund anon the deer will come. Shak., 3 Hen. VI., iii. l. 2.
  2. An obsolete form of lawn.

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  • "It iss under the Eagle Cliff where ye came to laund, I make no doot Well, I suppose it was; at least, there is a range of cliffs close to the place where our raft struck Oo ay--but it iss not the wee precipices, it iss the big hull behind them that we ca' the Eagle Cliff Oh, indeed! —  The Eagle Cliff
  • Many days he rode without adventure, until on a day he came to an old and venerable wood, dark and thick and close, where the moss hung like thick beards from the hoary branches There, in a laund or glade in the midmost part of the forest, he found an old and white dame, kneeling before a green cross beside the path, weeping piteously as she prayed and beat her breast What ails ye, lady?' —  King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys ; Girls
  • "Wanton" is a noun as well as an adjective; and, to prevent it from being mistaken for an epithet applied to Ganymede, it will in future be necessary to place after it a comma_, when the passage will read thus Here Love himself sits smiling Just such another wanton," (as the aforesaid smiling Love) "Ganymede Set Jove afire with," &c The third act of the same play commences thus The duke has lost Hippolita; each took A several land Mr. Dyce suspects that for "land" we should read "laund," an old form of lawn. —  Notes and Queries, Number 09, December 29, 1849
  • And homeward through the dark laund runs apace; -- —  Biographia Literaria
  • And how well he spoke at the great county meeting about the war, and the laund, and them bloodthirsty Mounseers! —  Lucretia — Volume 03
 

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  1. Early modern English also lawnd, launde, lawnde, rarely land, lande; from Middle English launde, lawnde, from Old French lande, launde, French lande = Spanish Portuguese Italian landa, a heath, a waste; prob. not from Teutonic land, land, but rather of Celtic origin: cf. Irish land, later laun, a thorny or spiny bush. The word is now used only in the corrupted form lawn (see lawn), or, as mere F., in the form lande: see lande.
 

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