Wound (?), imp. & p. p. of Wind
to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.
Wound (?; 277), n. [OE. wounde,
wunde, AS. wund; akin to OFries. wunde, OS.
wunda, D. wonde, OHG. wunta, G. wunde, Icel.
und, and to AS., OS., & G. wund sore, wounded, OHG.
wunt, Goth. wunds, and perhaps also to Goth. winnan to
suffer, E. win. √140. Cf. Zounds.]
1. A hurt or injury caused by violence;
specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the
substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the
like. Chaucer.
Showers of blood
Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen.
Shak.
2. Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the
like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.
3. (Criminal Law) An injury to the person by
which the skin is divided, or its continuity broken; a lesion of the body,
involving some solution of continuity.
&fist; Walker condemns the pronunciation woond as a "capricious
novelty." It is certainly opposed to an important principle of our
language, namely, that the Old English long sound written ou, and
pronounced like French ou or modern English oo, has regularly
changed, when accented, into the diphthongal sound usually written with the
same letters ou in modern English, as in ground,
hound, round, sound. The use of ou in Old
English to represent the sound of modern English oo was borrowed
from the French, and replaced the older and Anglo-Saxon spelling with
u. It makes no difference whether the word was taken from the French
or not, provided it is old enough in English to have suffered this change
to what is now the common sound of ou; but words taken from the
French at a later time, or influenced by French, may have the French
sound.
Wound gall (Zoöl.), an elongated
swollen or tuberous gall on the branches of the grapevine, caused by a
small reddish brown weevil (Ampeloglypter sesostris) whose
larvæ inhabit the galls.
Wound (?), v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Wounded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Wounding.] [AS. wundian. √140. See Wound,
n.]
1. To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or
separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.
The archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the
archers.
1 Sam. xxxi. 3.
2. To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect,
ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to.
When ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their
weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
1 Cor. viii.
12.
Wound (?), imp. & p. p. of Wind
to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.
Wound (?; 277), n. [OE. wounde,
wunde, AS. wund; akin to OFries. wunde, OS.
wunda, D. wonde, OHG. wunta, G. wunde, Icel.
und, and to AS., OS., & G. wund sore, wounded, OHG.
wunt, Goth. wunds, and perhaps also to Goth. winnan to
suffer, E. win. √140. Cf. Zounds.]
1. A hurt or injury caused by violence;
specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the
substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the
like. Chaucer.
Showers of blood
Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen.
Shak.
2. Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the
like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.
3. (Criminal Law) An injury to the person by
which the skin is divided, or its continuity broken; a lesion of the body,
involving some solution of continuity.
&fist; Walker condemns the pronunciation woond as a "capricious
novelty." It is certainly opposed to an important principle of our
language, namely, that the Old English long sound written ou, and
pronounced like French ou or modern English oo, has regularly
changed, when accented, into the diphthongal sound usually written with the
same letters ou in modern English, as in ground,
hound, round, sound. The use of ou in Old
English to represent the sound of modern English oo was borrowed
from the French, and replaced the older and Anglo-Saxon spelling with
u. It makes no difference whether the word was taken from the French
or not, provided it is old enough in English to have suffered this change
to what is now the common sound of ou; but words taken from the
French at a later time, or influenced by French, may have the French
sound.
Wound gall (Zoöl.), an elongated
swollen or tuberous gall on the branches of the grapevine, caused by a
small reddish brown weevil (Ampeloglypter sesostris) whose
larvæ inhabit the galls.
Wound (?), v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Wounded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Wounding.] [AS. wundian. √140. See Wound,
n.]
1. To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or
separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.
The archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the
archers.
1 Sam. xxxi. 3.
2. To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect,
ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to.
When ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their
weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
1 Cor. viii.
12.
