v. Forms: 1–2 wandian, 4–5 wand(e, wond(e, (4 waand, want, 5 whonde, wound(e, woonde; Sc. 5 waynd(e, 5–6 waind). [OE. wandian to shrink, hesitate, refrain, spare, corresp. to ON. vanda to make elaborately, make difficulties, find fault (cf. vandr difficult, etc., vandi difficulty, etc.): app. f. wand-, wend- to turn (see WAND sb., WEND v., WIND v.1; and cf. WANDIS v.).]
1. intr. To shrink or flinch for fear; to hesitate (esp. const. inf.); to refrain.
c. 897. K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past. C., xx. 149. Oft mon bið suiðe wandiʓende æt ælcum weorce & suiðe lætræde.
971. Blickl. Hom., 43. [Sins] swiþe unsyferlice þæt se man wandaþ þæt he hi æfre asecgge.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gram., xxvii. (Z.), 162. Uereor ic anðraciʓe oððe ic wandiʓe.
a. 1122. O. E. Chron. (Laud MS.), an. 1052. Ac he ne wandode na him metes to tylienne.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 4334. How sco broght him to þe fand, Forth to tell wil i noght waand. Ibid., 5293. For-þi, leue fader, want þou noght, Al þi will it sal þe wroght.
1303. R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 1693. Also shal þe womman wonde To take [in marriage] here godmodrys husbonde.
c. 1330. King of Tars, 898. The soudan tok the prest bi the honde, And bad him go and nothing wonde.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 4971. For drede of duresse nor of deth in erþe, nel i wonde in no wise what i þouȝt to seie.
c. 1385. Chaucer, L. G. W., 1187, Dido. Loue wil loue, for nothing wele it wande.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 590. I wole … Do my deuer yf I dar, & for no dethe wonde. Ibid., 3380. Wond of þi weping, whipe vp þi teris.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., V. 3961 (MS. W.). Scho wayndit nocht þare feit to wesche.
c. 1470. Henry, Wallace, I. 198. Quhar he fand ane … To cutt his throit, or steik hym sodanlye, He wayndyt nocht.
c. 1500. Melusine, 219. But the duc Anthony wanded.
a. 1510. Douglas, K. Hart, I. 91. Richt as the rose vpspringis fro the rute,… Nor waindis nocht the levis to outschute.
2. trans. To refrain from; to shrink from, avoid, shun; to refuse.
13[?]. Cursor M., 8361 (Gött.). He … bad hir say, ne wond it noght, Quat war best as hir thoght.
c. 1315. Shoreham, Poems, I. 2031. Ne hy ne wondeþ messeday, Ne none holy tyde.
1390. Gower, Conf., III. 268. This worthi kniht with swerd on honde His weie made, and thei him wonde.
c. 1430. Syr Tryam., 1526. My ryght name schalle y not wande.
c. 1450. Erle Tolous, 1155. Soche wordes y rede thou wonde.
a. 1500[?]. Chester Plays (E.E.T.S.), xxiii. 29. His wickednes he would not wonde [v.r. wound], Till he was taken and putt in Band.
Hence † Wonding vbl. sb., flinching, hesitation.
c. 1440. York Myst., xxviii. 77. Nowe will we lere, Full warely to were ȝou fro alle wandynge.
