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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Strind(e, Strynd(e, n.1 Also: stryinde, stryndie. [ME and e.m.E. strund (Layamon), strend(e (a1300), OE (Anglian) (ᵹi)strýnd, ᵹestreond, f. (ᵹe)stríenan.]
1. Lineage; race; variety, sort.?1438 Alex. ii 624.
Thow knawis nocht our kynd, Na quhen we come, na of quhat strynd c1420 Wynt. i 332.
In Egypte … Geawndis grewe, and [of] that kynd Come Enathym, and off hys strynd Come Golyath c1420 Wynt. v 5316.
It suffycyt well than, man-kynd Anys suld cum off Adamys strynd c1420 Wynt. vi 2162.
He is na man … bot off the dewyllis strynd c1450-2 Howlat 547 (A).
The sternis of ane nothir strynd steris so fair Ane callit Murray c1500 Crying of Play 30.
I … Quhilk generit am … Fra strang Hercules be strynd a1508 Kennedy Flyt. 546.
Hangit, mangit, eddirstangit, strynde [B. stryndie] stultorum c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 131/21.
Mismad mandragis of mastis strynd 1513 Doug. iii ii 68.
My fadir than, revoluyng in his mynd The discens of forfaderis of our strynd 1531 Bell. Boece I cvi.
Nobilnes … makis ane man sa full of gentilnes … The awfull churle is of ane othir strind … Thair may na gentrice sink into his mind 1533 Boece 307.
Modred [was] of the Pichtis, fra quhilk blude and strynde Britouns mycht of resoun suspect iniuris 1570 Sat. P. xxiv 13.
Degenerat Stewartis of ane Hieland strynde a1603 Anc. Prophecies 12.
They … That commed are of strodlings strinde
2. Nature; characteristic; strain.c1420 Ratis R. 940.
For comonly thai [sc. women] folow kynd And gretly to the modiris strind c1420 Ratis R. 1299.
For bewte cummys of propre kind And payntit al of vthir strind c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 55.
Thy trechour tung hes tane ane heland strynd 1513 Doug. viii viii 129.
Of the blude of this ilk land Admixit standis he, takand sum strynd, Apon hys moderis syde, of Sabyne kynd a1568 Scott iii 5.
For, knew ȝe wemenis natur, course, & strynd, Ȝe wald nocht be so trew to thair vntrewth a1570-86 Maitland in Maitl. F. 432/24.
Off ingratnes it hes ane strynd That can nocht keip na auld kyndnes a1585 Maitl. Q. 93/131.
For suithlie of man kynd Ma wicked may be called Then of the wemen stryinde a1605 Montg. Misc. P. xviii 2.
Of natur all things hes a strynd; So evrie leving creature Ay covets comounly thair kynd
