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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Hund, n. Also: hunde, hwnd(e. [ME. hund (in the 14th and 15th c. chiefly northern in this form), OE. hund, ON. hund-r. Cf. Hound n.]

1. In early use: A dog, generally. a1400 Leg. S. iii. 239.
Thai fendis … In forem [sic] of hundis can apere Ib. vii. 680.
Nothire wes lewit in that towne Hwnde, na catte … vnhetyne 14.. Acts I. 13/2.
Gif ony man slais an othir mannis hund … he sal wak apon that mannis myddin … for falt of his wache hund c1420 Wynt. i. 696.
Sum … lyk of hewyd tyll hwndys are Ib. vii. 3462.
Gret gentill men … To be gleddys or hwndys mete 1456 Hay I. 120/20.
Rycht sa the hund and the wolf, the cat and the mous c1460 Consail Wys Man 162.
Gentill hund gyrnis or he byt c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 273.
I hatit him like a hund

2. spec. A hunting dog, a hound.Freq. distinguished from a Rache or Brache. 1375 Barb. vi. 469.
Schir Amer wes cumand For to hunt hym out of the land, With hund and horn Ib. vii. 23.
War ȝon devillis hund [sc. a sleuth-hound] avay 14.. Acts I. 327/2.
The huntar may folow his hund rinnand c1475 Wall. v. 24.
A hunde that thai had thaim amang c1515 Asl. MS. I. 248/4.
For the steling of a hund or ratche 1508 Reg. Privy S. I. 241/2.
That ȝe eschet the saidis … hundis and rachis … to our use 1513 Doug. v. v. 26.
For hundis queste it semyt the lyft ryfe wald 1531 Bell. Boece II. 297.
To haif sum pleseir … be chace of hundis in the said forest 1557 Reg. Cupar A. II. 141.
Thay … sall nuryce ane leiche of hundis for tod and woulf 1582 Treas. Acc. MS. 82 b.
To mend the chymlay quhair the hundis lyis 1596 Dalr. I. 137/5.
Quhais hunteris hunde had first sett on the wylde deir Ib. 186/4.
This greiueng him sair, to quhome the chief kair of the kingis hundes was committed 1622-6 Bisset I.29/2.
Twa reches and ane hund

3. Applied contemptuously to a man. a1400 Leg. S. xxviii. 364.
Syne can scho to that prefec say, ‘Vnschameful hund’