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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XII).
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Wodbind, -bynd, n. Also: vod-, wood-, uood-, wid bind, vid bin. [ME and e.m.E. wudelvin(d)e (c1265), wode bynde (Chaucer), wodbynd (c1425), woodbynde (1525), woodbyne (1548), OE wudubind(e.] A clinging, climbing plant, prob. ivy or convolvulus. Also attrib. and fig.b. In medicinal use as part of a potion or salve.(a) 1533 Boece 415a.
Quha tryumphit in voracite and wachting, he … crownit him with wod bynd a1550 Tayis Bank 43.
Brasit about with wyld wodbynd Wer bewis c1550 Lynd. Meldrum 991.
Thay micht na maner of way disseuer … Bot, like wodbind, thay wer baith wrappit 1557–8 Edinb. Old Acc. I 270.
For … clay and wodbynd to clay the Trone agane the said play for upstikin of Jonet Flowers upone the samin 1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 44.
As the wod bind clymeth on the oik and syne with tyme distroyis the tre 1590 Mill Mediæv. Plays 199.
For wodbind to set about the armes & bringing in of it quhilk was fetche far of c1590 J. Stewart 85/211.
Ane fontane cleir Quhair vodbind and vyn brainchis linkit threw Ane plesand tortur 1597 Crim. Trials II 27.
For hailling of women of the wedonynpha, … be taking of ane garland of grene-wodbynd, and causing of the patient pas thryise throw it(b) 1634 Wedderburn Gramm. 15.
Similax, a kind of wood-bind(c) 1500-1699 Herbarius Latinus Annot. lix (Adv.).
Edera terrestris, wid bind, vid binattrib. 1581-1623 James VI Poems I 221/176.
Husbandmen uith uoodbind crounes to tuyce borne Bachus dance 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 1073.
Ane hors … harneist all with wodbind leuis grenefig. 1622 Scot Course of Conformity 114.
Ceremonies shall proue in our kirk such woodbind to the worship, as ministers have found the dignitie of bishops to themselvesb. 1597 Crim. Trials II 26.
To gif hir a bath in a pot of wodbind and roset hett togidder 1597 Crim. Trials II 28.
Scho maid a saw of reid nettellis and butter and wodbind, and laid it to the patientis lunȝie