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† swind, v. Obs.
Also 4 swynde.
[OE. swindan, pa. tense swand, swundon, pa. pple. -swunden = OHG. suuintan, suindan, pa. tense suant, (MHG. swinden, occas. swinten, G. schwinden, schwand, geschwunden, whence Da. svinde), a formation with -nd- on the Teut. root swī̆- (cf. Icel. svía to abate), parallel to a formation with -n-, repr. by OHG. swînan (MHG. swînen, G. schweinen) of the same meaning, MLG. swînen to be slow, ON. svina to subside, and to a formation with -m-, repr. by swime and the related forms.]
intr. To waste away, languish; to dwindle, decrease; to vanish, disappear. Hence † swinden ppl. a., enfeebled, enervated (cf. aswind 2, forswounden).
c900tr. Bæda's Hist. iv. xxv. (1899) 500 Ealle..oððe hefiᵹe slæpe swundon, oððe to synnum wacedon. c1000Ags. Ps. (Spelman) xxxviii. 15 [xxxix. 11] Swindan ðu dydest..sawle his. a1200Moral Ode 57 in O.E. Hom. I. 163 Vre swinc and ure tilþe is ofte iwoned to swinden. c1275Lay. 23670 Þanne mai me singe Of one swindene kinge Þat his beot haueþ imaked And his cniht-sipe forsake. 13..St. Erkenwolde 342 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 274 Sodenly his swete chere swyndid & faylide. a1327Pol. Songs (Camden) 150 Thus me pileth the pore that is of lute pris: Nede in swot and in swynk swynde mot swo. a1380Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. xxviii. 56 Heil lenere and louere of largenesse, Swete and swettest þat neuer may swynde. |