Obs. pseudo-arch. Spenserian word, with the sense ‘furious, savage,’ due to misunderstanding of a passage containing YOND a.1 or adv., prob. the following:—
| Beth egre as is a Tygre yond in Ynde (Chaucer, Clerk’s T., 1143). |
1590. Spenser, F. Q., II. viii. 40. Like a Lion, which hath long time saught His robbed whelpes, and at the last them fond…, then wexeth wood and yond. Ibid., III. vii. 26. As Florimell fled from that Monster yond.
1600. Fairfax, Tasso, I. lv. Those three brethren, Lombards fierce and yond [orig. i tre fratei lombardi al chiaro mondo Involi].
