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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Pound, n.¹ Also: pounde, pownd, powynd. [ME and e.m.E. pound (Piers Plowman), pownde (c 1420), early ME pund, OE pund, Pund n.¹: cf. Pond.] A pound (of weight or money).

1. The measure of weight. = Pund n.¹ I 1.(1) sing. 1534 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 137.
For the pound of peper yeirlie tane of ane tenement of George Lydderdaill 1538 Aberd. B. Rec. I 155.
Vith ane vax candill in hir hand of ane pounduninfl. pl. 1566 Hay Fleming Q. Mary 499.
Four pound of fyne suyng threide 1596 Brechin Test. I 146 b.
Tua pound and ane halff ingȝeoun seid 1691 Sheriffhall Coal Accompt.
7 pownd of airnplur. 1535 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 152.
For spylling of coveryngis xxv poundis of al als gud stuff as hir awin vas 1538 Treas. Acc. VIII 160.
For ane stane iiij poundis hardis xj s. viij d.(2) c 1650 Cochran-Patrick Coinage I lxxix.
So that the Scots Trose pound wilbe lighter then the Paris kings pound by 12 den 9^{9/31 gr} Scots 1686 Acts VIII 604/2.
For each pound Scots of sextein ounces conforme to the standart pile of Scots weight now in his majesties mint one pound of sextein ounces of his majesties current coyne 1686 Mackenzie Observ. 119.
The weights … us'd by apothecaries … Sixteen ounces maketh a pound. The medicinal pound is twelve ounces

b. concr. A pound-weight: see Pond n.¹ b.

2. Pound-weight. a. A pound in weight. = Pund n.¹ I 2. b. A pound-weight. = Pund n.¹ I 2 b and also 1 b above. 1595 Skipper's Acc. (Morton) 70 a.
Reseuet … xxxv stane and vi pound weycht of talone 1686 Acts VIII 606/1.
By quhich means there will be in a Scots pound weight according to the standart pile of weights now in the mint seaventeen sixtie shilling piecesb. 1587 Carmichael Etym. 7.
As, a pound weight of 12 unces 1647 J. Hope in Cochran-Patrick Coinage I lxxxi.
The 24 Julie tryed deane of gilds lb weight of Ed^r … with the aforementioned Frenche pound weight and fund the deane of gild's lb weight lighter by twelve graines

3. The money of account. = Pund n.¹ II 3.(1) sing. 1462 Charter (Reg. H.) No. 368.
The said sum of twenti pundez & a pound c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxxi 75.
Into this realme ȝow war worth mony ane pound a1570-86 Maitland Maitl. F. clxxiv 70.
That cost ane pound befoir nou costis threuninfl. pl. 1375 Barb. xviii 285 (E).
It cost a thousand pound & mar a1400 Leg. S. xxxv 114.
The quhilk price … Wes foure hundre pownd of gold clen 1398 Slater Early Sc. Texts No. 38; etc.
Pounde 1448 Buccleuch Mun. II 40.
For thuenty povnde be yhere c1475 Wall. ix 1390.
Pownd c1550 Lynd. Meldrum 184.
Pound 1560 Rolland Seven S. 2423.
Had I ten thousand poundplur. 1531–2 Reg. Soltre 108.
Ten poundis wsuell mone off Scotland 1589–90 Waus Corr. 443.
Thrie yeris foirmaill … extending to ix^cc poundis 1594 Grant Chart. 186.
Onder the paynes following … James Grant … ane thousand powyndis: Lauchlan Grant … ane thousand powndis(2) 1685 Paterson Sc. Arithm. 9.
The Flemish … liver or pound being 7 of ours. As also the French, their liver being 18 sh. Scots(3) a1578 Pitsc. I 227/24.
For his reward M pound starling c 1600 Dundee Shipping P. 67.
Fowrtei pownd of Eingllis monnay(4) 1593 Conv. Burghs I 408.
At fyue poundis Scottis ilk pound greitt c 1674 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Deeds I 499.
At two pounds Scots the ele 1686 Acts VIII 605/2.
If the bullion doe not exceed sex thousand pounds Scots

b. comb. in the designations of coins: see Pund n.¹ II 3 e.v pound pese, ? the rider of James VI (1593–). 1589–1600 Skipper's Acc. (Morton) 46 a.
Of v pound peses iii skor