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Soundand, -ing, ppl. adj. Also: sowndand, soundyng, sownding, sownyng. [ME and e.m.E. sounand (c1325), sounyng (Chaucer), sowndynge (1483), soundynge (1526), -ing (1560); Sound v.¹]

1. Emitting a sound or sounds; sonorous, resonant; resounding; (of bees) humming. Also qualified by wele. Cf. Sound v.¹ 1. 1513 Doug. iii vi 165.
Outthrou the soundand forest of Avern [L. Averna sonantia silvis] 1513 Doug. xii ix 54.
Amyd the sovndand buskis of lawrer [L. virgulta sonantia lauro] c1520-c1535 Nisbet 1 Cor. xiii 1.
I am made as bras soundand [P. sownynge] or as a cymbale tinkiland 1562-3 Winȝet I 75/7. a1605 Montg. Ch. & Slae 62.
Thair suddainlie I sawe repaire Ane swarme of sownding beeis c1590 Fowler I 18/5.
So Homer was a sounding trumpet fyne Amangst the Greikis 1587-99 Hume 20/110.
What forms the haile, the stormy snawes, & sounding showres of rain — c1500-c1512 Dunb. (STS) lxxxviii 44.
Blith be thy churches, wele sownyng be thy bellis 1513 Doug. vii xi 147.
Weill soundyng wriblys throw thar throtis lang Swouchyng makis in maner of a sang

2. Tending towards, approaching; consonant with (to). Cf. Sound v.¹ 6. 1531 Bell. Boece I 285.
It is mair sowndand to the verite to follow mony provin and attentik authouris, in discriptioun of oure historie