Obs. exc. Sc. sindry. Forms: 1 Northumb. syndriʓe, suindriʓe, swyndria; chiefly Sc. and north. 4 syndri, 4–6 syndry, 5 sindrie, 6 sindri, (9 sinry, sinnery,) 5– sindry; 3–5 sundri, 4 sondry, 6–7 sundrie, 4–9 sundry. [OE. syndriʓe, = OHG. sunt(a)rîgo (MHG. sunderige, LG. sonderig, sünderig); f. prec.]
1. Separately, apart; severally, individually.
c. 950. Lindisf. Gosp., Mark iv. 34. Seorsum, syndriʓe. Ibid., xiv. 19. Singillatim, swyndria.
c. 1205. Lay., 24577. Alle þa wepmen at heore mete seten sund[r]i bi heom seoluen.
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 2354. In lond gersen sulen ȝe sundri riche ben.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 20202. I sal to þe a-postles weind onan, And sceu þam sundri an and an, Þat tai be her þe thrid dai.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, XVII. 297. He … till gret lordis, ilkane syndri, Ordanit and felde for thar herbry.
c. 1475. Rauf Coilȝear, 29. Be thay disseuerit sindrie, midmorne was past.
1524. St. Papers Hen. VIII., IV. 129. It may doo gret ewel to Me, and pwt the Kyng my son and Me syndry.
1538. Starkey, England (1878), 85. The fautys wych we schal fynde sundry in the partys.
1589. Alex. Hume, Poems (S.T.S.), 60. They … sundrie through the earth were driuen.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., II. ix. 48. These three in these three roomes did sundry dwell.
1829. Hogg, Sheph. Cal., I. i. 20. The herds, wha lived about three miles sindry.
† b. In detail. Obs. rare.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 26609. Scrift agh be scire and sundri [v.r. sundre] tald.
2. Of a single object (or anything so considered): In or into pieces; to pieces; = ASUNDER adv. 4.
1533. Bellenden, Livy, I. xi. (S.T.S.), I. 63. How þe Veanis and fidenatis war discomfist, & mecius dictator drawin sindri for his demeritis. Ibid. (1536), Cron. Scot. (1821), I. 231. Drawin sindry with wild hors.
1882. Jamieson’s Sc. Dict., s.v., The thing fell sindry in my han’.
1893. F. Mackenzie, Cruisie Sk., ii. (1894), 20. It will be an unco hard hoast that shak’s ye sindry.
