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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Pond, n. Also: ponde; poind, poynde; pon. Plur. also ponddis. [ME pond (Ayenbite). Cf. Pund, Pound. This form occurs chiefly in early and in more or less late texts.]

A pound.

1. a. The measure of weight. = Pund n. I. Also fig. in proverb.(a) ?14.. Ship Laws c. 27 (B).
It aw to be castyn ponde be ponde 1437 Aberd. B. Rec. MS IV 99.
For four pondis grece 1454 Coll. St. Salvator 160.
[A] haly watter fat … weyand sevyn trois pondis and four owns Ib. 161.
Twa chandleris off siluer the qwhilkis weis twa trois pond and halff ane owns 1614 Rec. Earld. Orkney 382.
A pond resingis 1617 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II 41.
For xii pond soapproverb. a1598 Ferg. Prov. MS No. 206.
Ane pond of cair payes not ane unce of debt(b) 1562 Dumfries B. Ct. fol. 161.
[They] comprisit ane chandlar ane basing of fyve pund wecht ane pewder plait ane pund & ane half the price of the poynde of the brasin work xx d. the price of the pund of the pewder xxx d. 1626–7 Peebles B. Rec. I 415.
For ane poind of leid

b. A pound-weight. = Pund n. 1 b and 2 b. 1696 Cochran-Patrick Coinage II 262.
The comittie … having tryed the ponds for the fyve shilling starling the twentie shilling Scotts and the five shilling Scots peices by the Dean of Gilds pile of weights they found two pounds of the five shilling starling peices and one pond of the twenty shilling Scotts peeces and one for the five shilling Scotts peeces all exact of the weight appointed by the act of parliament 1694 Ib. 239.

c. Pond-wecht. = Pund n. 2, also a above. 1617 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II 89.
For xx pond wecht of rossen

2. The money of account. = Pund n. II.(1) uninfl. pl. 1397 Slater Early Sc. Texts No. 34.
The sexteyn ponde of anwell 1397 Acts I 208/1.
Ponde 1398–9 Liber Melros II 488.
[90] pond of gude mone and lele of Scotland 1399 Holyrood Chart. 112. 1413 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III 364. 1423 Charter (Reg. H.) No. 259.
To the saide Dene John … nyne ponde & tenne schillingis 1456 Peebles B. Rec. I 115.plur.(a) 1399 Holyrood Chart. 113.
Foure score of pondis c1420 Bute MS. fol. 141.
For the qwhilkys I tax apon thé … thus mony penyis or pondys 1431 Reg. Great S. 43/2.
Thre ponddis at the fest of Wytsonday … aucht ponddis [etc.] 1454–5 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I 275.
Vnder the payn of ane hunder pondis 1457 Peebles B. Rec. I 123.
The balye John Dekyson has gefyng to the pursmasster xl s. and vj in siluer and pondis and x s. 1480 Newbattle Coll. (Somerville).
The som of thua hundreth pondis 1567 Douglas Chart. 264. 1589 St. A. B. Ct. 9 May.
The sowme off ten pondis gud & vsuall money off this realme(b) 1647 Burnett Fam. P.
He paying … aught poinds munie forsaid of silver duitie yearlie(2) c1390-1434 Scots Merchandise 118.
Thre pondis Ynglis makis the li. gr.(3) 1666 Corshill Baron Ct. 70.
The sowme of foure ponds Scotts, grassmaill 1695 Ib. 189.
For thirtie pondis Scotis money … quhairof [he] receaved three pond money forsaid of airles(b) 1681 Irvine Mun. II 294.
Fowr pon sixth shilen Scots

b. Pondis worth of land, = pundis worth, Pund n. II 3 c and Pond-land n. 1402 Slater Early Sc. Texts No. 55.
Fourti pondis worth of land 1407 Bk. Carlaverock II 418.
The qwylk xx^ti pondys worth of lande we … hyghtys to mak … to the forsayd Syr Harbarte 1408 Slater Early Sc. Texts No. 70.
Of fourti pondis worth of land