Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Anglo-Saxon law, protection; security.
  • noun A globe or ball: same as mound.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See mun.

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  • noun obsolete A hand.
  • noun obsolete security, granted by a king or earl, the violation of which was punished by a fine (a mundbyrd)
  • noun Protection, guardianship.

Etymologies

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Old English mund, from Germanic. Cognate with German Mund, Munt ("legal protection").

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Examples

  • Ato para ka mundësi që të kenë rënë në duart e ndonjë besimtari i cili është i varfër dhe i shtyrë në moshë.

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  • Ato para ka mundësi që të kenë rënë në duart e ndonjë besimtari i cili është i varfër dhe i shtyrë në moshë.

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  • Ato para ka mundësi që të kenë rënë në duart e ndonjë besimtari i cili është i varfër dhe i shtyrë në moshë.

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  • September 29, 2009 at 4:29 am sum uv teh sfogliatelle izz filld wif teh aww mund creem, adn sum haz teh orinj creem – butt !

    I am your fierce protector - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • There is so much mis-information in this thread it is mund boggleing.

    Think Progress » Snow: There Is Too Much Focus on Kidnapped U.S. Soldiers 2006

  • It is certainly true that E.mund McIlhenny began bottling and selling E. McIlhenny Tabasco Pepper Sauce in the late 1860s.

    Ingredients of a Family Fortune Mark Robichaux 2007

  • Ask my index, mund my achilles, swell my obolum, wosh-up my nase serene, answered the Mookse, rapidly by turning clement, urban, eugenious and celestian in the formose of good grogory humours.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • His clay feet, swarded in verdigrass, stick up starck where he last fellonem, by the mund of the maga-zine wall, where our maggy seen all, with her sisterin shawl.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • My only complaint would be the lack of some cognates in the words' etymologies, viz. a Sanskrit and Old Persian cognate in the etymology of nail, n. (both present in the OED2 entry) and a Greek cognate in the etymology of mund, n. or manus, n.1 (not present in the OED2 entry).

    languagehat.com: OVEST. 2005

  • I've been thinking something similar with green mund beans and yellow mung beans.

    Roasted soy beans Mika 2005

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