Obs. [f. next vb.] a. The action of trying; trial, proof, experience. b. The state of being tried; a trial, a temptation.

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  a.  c. 1250.  Gen. & Ex., 336. Of ðis fruit wile ic hauen fond.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 4333 (Cott.). How sco broght him [Joseph] to þe fand. Ibid., 24364 (Cott.). Hard faand i þar-of fand.

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  b.  a. 1300.  Cursor M., 25175 (Cott.).

        Þat thoru ouer cuming o þat faand
He mai þe mede haf ai last[and].

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1451.  Political Poems (Rolls), II. 230.

        But yef the commyns of Englonde
Helpe the kynge in his fonde,
    Suffolk wolle bere the crowne.

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