subs. (old).—See quot. Also MAUNDING and as adj.
c. 1603. Sack for my Money [COLLIER, Roxburghe Ballads (1847), 180]. A MAUNDING COVE that doth it love.
1610. ROWLANDS, Martin Mark-all, 39 [Hunterian Club’s Reprint, 1874]. MAUNDING = begging.
1630. TAYLOR (‘The Water Poet’), Workes, ‘The Begger.’ As for example, suppose a Begger be in the shape or forme of a MAUNDERING, or wandering Souldier, with one arme, legge, or eye, or some such maime.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v.
