Obs. [f. SOUND a.]

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  1.  trans. To make sound or whole; to heal.

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c. 1374.  Chaucer, Anel. & Arc., 242. Noon othir helpeþe my soores for to sounde.

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1412–20.  Lydg., Chron. Troy, IV. 2705. So mortally, þat þer may no salue Her sores sounde.

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c. 1430.  Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, I. cxli. (1869), 73. Thee needeth … a Surgien to sounde and counfort ayen the senewes that ben brused.

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  2.  intr. To become sound; to be healed or cured.

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c. 1402.  Lydg., Compl. Bl. Knt., xlii. Through-girt with many a wounde That lykly are neer for to sounde. Ibid. (a. 1412[?]), Two Merchants, 227. My bollyng festrith, that it may nat sounde.

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