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from The Century Dictionary.
- An unexplained word, perhaps a mistake for round, occurring in the following passage:
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Examples
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'I have vound oudt,' said Darco, one day, 'that our paggage man is
Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray
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Why she guess'd if she went there, she'd soon be a-vound
Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect William Barnes
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An 'she vound en grow wo'se in the dead o' the night,
Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect William Barnes
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Well! he vound a good naïghbour to goo in his pleäce
Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect William Barnes
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Where noo tree vor a sheäde but the thorn is a-vound,
Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect William Barnes
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Where noo shelter's a-vound but his hut, that is nigh,
Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect William Barnes
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I hav 'zee grief to vound zee feelin's of zat so fine actrice Americaine -- zat ees one tr'ubles, und den I hav' zee shame to mak 'zat grande fool meestak' -- oh, mon Dieu!
Stage Confidences Clara Morris
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But she vound in the evenèn the chile werden well,
Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect William Barnes
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Zoo at langth, when he vound her so smilèn an 'kind,
Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect William Barnes
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The son of a bitch was always good at finding a hare sitting, an be rotted to n: I little thought what puss he was looking after; but it shall be the worst he ever vound in his life.
Logophile77 commented on the word vound
This is the passage in question:
https://books.google.com/books?id=g09BnIGEkN0C&pg=PA738&lpg=PA738&dq=though+it+were+of+no+vounde+stone+wrought+with+squyre+and+scantilone&source=bl&ots=9-H3DU2UcF&sig=znVvEuOjE59rdHgk8Iw-Mgv8kYM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiemIahzobZAhWd2YMKHahBBLIQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=though%20it%20were%20of%20no%20vounde%20stone%20wrought%20with%20squyre%20and%20scantilone&f=false
February 2, 2018
alexz commented on the word vound
Release the vounds!
February 2, 2018