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Grond, n.Var. (as occas. in ME. and e.m.E.) of Ground n. and Grund n. in various usual senses. (Freq. in the earliest MS. of Douglas).(1) a1400 Legends of the Saints xxiii. 433.
The emperoure thane fel to the grond [: stownd] c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace vii. 189.
Quhen Sampsone powed to grond the gret piller 1513 Doug. i. iv. 60.
Quhil he to grond had brocht sevin hartis grete 1513 Ib. ii. iii. 58.
Down on the grond scho fell 1513 Ib. iii. iii. 1; etc.
Euery beist on grond(2) 1481 Peebles B. Rec. 188.
In the habytacion to be maid on the said grond 1493 Acts Lords of Council 307/1.
The wrangwis broiking of the said Robertis gronde 1510 Reg. Privy S. I. 325/2.
With power … gif the grond be nocht responsable for movable gudis to gar apprise the said grond 1520 Fife Sheriff Ct. 178.
The grond & manys of Craghall 1533 Boece i. viii. 53.
The wattir of Clyde … rynnys apoun the grond foresaid(3) 1513 Doug. iii. ii. 54.
The ilke grond, fra quham the first stok cam Of ȝour lynnage 1513 Ib. x. vi. 28.
The … bargis dyd rebound, Inrowand fast towart the Latyn grond(4) a1400 Legends of the Saints xxvii. 239.
The barn … That in the grond of the fat lay(5) a1400 Legends of the Saints xlii. 74.
Sayand scho had fondit hir thocht One a grond that fallis nocht 1513 Doug. i. Prol. 470.
Grond of all gude, our Saluyour Jhesus c1590 Fowler II. 111/16.
Far les had they any grond or essential being c1590 Ib. 116/21.
Disordours … whichgeveth mater and grond to infinit murders