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Pand, Paund, Pawnd, Pane, v. [f. Pand n.2; cf. also MDu., MLG. panden, and Pawn(e v.] tr. To pledge, a. as a wager, to wager, stake, b. as a security for payment or performance, to pawn. c. fig.Also const. infin. or noun clause: To pledge (a thing) to do something or that something be done.a. a1578 Pitsc. I. 340/17.
The King … gart her pand ane hunder crouns and ane tune of wyne wpoun the Inglischemenis handis and hie laid done sa mekill for the Scottismen
Ib. (1814) II. 348.
So thair was laid an hundreth crounes and ane tun of wyne pandit on everie syd
b. 1604-9 Grahame Anat. Hum. 10.
Till some poore gentle-man take notice of his owne late pawnded sute
1630 Misc. Hist. Soc. II. 255.
To redeime sum of thair very viticillis and domiseillis quhilk thay had pandit
1644 Sharpe Witchcraft 117.
To relieve some cloaths he had panded besyde you
1648 Hamilton P. (Camden Soc.) 175.
Gooffe being gone with the tuo great croun jeaules to pane at the lumbar Amsterdam for a 100,000
1659 Misc. Sc. Hist. Soc. VII. 37.
My wife … panded her two ringes … for 30 ll. Scotts
1684 S. Leith Rec. 143.
Paunded
1686 McKay Kilmarnock 8.
His wyffis body cott quhilk was pandit for threepence
1698 Cromarty Corr. I. 132.
I wod paund … what more I had
1700 Household Bk. Gr. Baillie 266.
For loosing a bible was panded
1702 Ib. 267.c. 1638 Henderson Serm. 70.
Seeing He has … panded his truth to care for us
1660 Sel. Biog. I. 271.
I dare paund mine immortall soul that … [lovers of Christ] shall have greatest peace at the end of the day
1673 Red Bk. Grandtully I. cxiv.
I'le pand my life upon A hundred voyces for the ladye's one

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