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Ȝond(e, Yond(e, adj. Also: ȝound, ȝon. [ME and e.m.E. ȝonnd (Orm), ȝond (a1250), yond (Cursor M.), yonde (14th c.).] a. (The) ȝond half, syde, end, the farther, other side, end. b. = Ȝon(e demonstr. adj. 1, in senses a and c. c. = Ȝondir adj.a. (1) 1375 Barb. ix 219.
The king … On the ȝond half Doun wes than liand 1375 Barb. xvii 191.
On ȝond half Tweid ?1438 Alex. i 1183.
Vpone ȝond halfe of flom Jordane ?1438 Alex. ii 1497.
On ȝond halfe [F. D'autrepart] Pharoun(2) ?1438 Alex. ii 2123.
On the ȝond syde [F. D'autrepart] Pharoun 1493 Liber Aberbr. II 279.
The croftis of the yond syd the burn 1513–14 Acta Conc. MS XXVI 92.
At na bottis be ladin to pas in Ingland on the yond syde of wattir without thai cum to Leitht 1531 Bell. Boece I xxxiii.
On the yond side of it lyis Murray 1560 Acts II 607/1.
On the ȝond syde of the month 1562 Edinb. B. Rec. III 153.
Certane inhabitantis of Leyth on the yonde syde of the brig 1596 Dalr. II 122/19.
The king … his schip … gart sett … to the sey … Andro Bartayne saylet with a multitud of marineris to the ȝond syd, and vpon the cost of Holland [etc.](b) 1515 Dundee B. Laws 95.
On the ȝon side of the sea(3) 1608 Reg. Privy C. VIII 89.
[All armed with swords … came to the] yond end of the said brigb. (1) 1535 Stewart 56686.
Deir freindis all, we ȝow exhort … to remember of victorie … As we haif wyn in mony feild … Quhen we war all in danger … far moir Nor we ar now for all thair multitude … Ȝond folk fra ws in mony feild that fled, Sa oft before oure dyntis(2) a1500 Sir Eger 67.
When we departed at yond gate, Thou was full blith 1535 Stewart 57485.
Thir Inglismen, The quhilk befoir ȝond lessoun did him ken 1638 Baillie I 174.
The subscryveing of it by the hand of … onlie the moderator and the clerk … And these two alone are better than a thousand others; for all others are bot for them selves bot yond two represents all in law and reasonc. 1513 Doug. vi v 166 (Ruddim.) (see Ȝonder adj.).
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