A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Pand, Paund, Pawnd, Pane, v. [f. Pand n.2; cf. also MDu., MLG. panden, and Pawn(e v.] tr. To pledge, a. as a wager, to wager, stake, b. as a security for payment or performance, to pawn. c. fig.Also const. infin. or noun clause: To pledge (a thing) to do something or that something be done.a. a1578 Pitsc. I. 340/17.
The King … gart her pand ane hunder crouns and ane tune of wyne wpoun the Inglischemenis handis and hie laid done sa mekill for the Scottismen Ib. (1814) II. 348.
So thair was laid an hundreth crounes and ane tun of wyne pandit on everie sydb. 1604-9 Grahame Anat. Hum. 10.
Till some poore gentle-man take notice of his owne late pawnded sute 1630 Misc. Hist. Soc. II. 255.
To redeime sum of thair very viticillis and domiseillis quhilk thay had pandit 1644 Sharpe Witchcraft 117.
To relieve some cloaths he had panded besyde you 1648 Hamilton P. (Camden Soc.) 175.
Gooffe being gone with the tuo great croun jeaules to pane at the lumbar Amsterdam for a 100,000 1659 Misc. Sc. Hist. Soc. VII. 37.
My wife … panded her two ringes … for 30 ll. Scotts 1684 S. Leith Rec. 143.
Paunded 1686 McKay Kilmarnock 8.
His wyffis body cott quhilk was pandit for threepence 1698 Cromarty Corr. I. 132.
I wod paund … what more I had 1700 Household Bk. Gr. Baillie 266.
For loosing a bible was panded 1702 Ib. 267.c. 1638 Henderson Serm. 70.
Seeing He has … panded his truth to care for us 1660 Sel. Biog. I. 271.
I dare paund mine immortall soul that … [lovers of Christ] shall have greatest peace at the end of the day 1673 Red Bk. Grandtully I. cxiv.
I'le pand my life upon A hundred voyces for the ladye's one
