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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Hund, v. [f. Hundn. Cf. Hound v.] a. tr. To drive (away, furth, out) with hounds or by violence. b. To set on (a dog); to incite (a person). c. intr. To go hunting.a. 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 303.
Wha … hundet out with bauch strockis … all the poure folkis of the toun 1581 Acts III. 222/2.
To hund and slay scheip with doggis 1581 Reg. Privy S. II. 386.
[They] hundit away the oxin 1665 Forbes Baron Ct. 263.
The said Thomas Adame sall be harmless and scaithles … neither sal he hund out any in his name ?1672 M. Bruce Sermon in Edinburgh 2.
He makes the creatures hund them to deathb. 1561 St. A. Kirk S. 85.
He hundit the hayl cuntre aganis hym 1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 25.
Not ȝit haif hundit furth proud ... ȝoung men to herry, slay [etc.] 1607 Melrose Reg. Rec. I. 54.
He saw Charle Steinson hund ane dog at the schep 1614 Crim. Trials III. 301.
I remember that a great number of this cuntrie men hundit him till foliesc. 1649 Cramond Speymouth Ch. 7.
Robert Duncan … denyed upon his oathe that he hundit with ane doge … that day