wandn.
/wɒnd/, U.S. /wɑnd/ A stick or rod. The word has little colloquial currency except in Scottish and northern dialects, in which it suggests the notion of suppleness; as a literary word it is usually apprehended (by southern readers) as denoting something rigid. In the Bible of 1611 it occurs only once (Ecclus. xxxiii. 24); the Revised Version (1894) substitutes stick.† 4. † b. under the wand: liable to corporal correction. Hence (with influence of sense 6), subject to (the) rule (of a person): = medieval Latin sub virga. Cf. yard n.2 4. Scottish. Obsolete.† 6. A sceptre. Obsolete.† 9. † b. A measure of land; ? a virgate n. Obsolete.† 10. Anatomy. The smaller of the two bones of the forearm; the radius. Cf. ell-wand n. 2. Obsolete.
1. figurative.a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 752 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 118 Thow seker trone of salamon Thow worthy wand of Aaron.† c. A light walking-stick, cane. Obsolete.
a. A straight slender stick. Now Scottish and dialect. In Scottish use, chiefly a slender pliant stick cut from a stem or branch of a shrub or young tree.The early examples occur chiefly in biblical references, where modern usage follows the Bible of 1611 in substituting rod; applied, e.g., to the ‘rod’ carried by Moses, to Aaron's ‘rod’ that budded, etc.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > stick, twig, or rod
stickOE
wandc1175
rond?c1225
raddling1470
sway1630
halvelings1832
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 16178 Þatt he swa swiþe mikell follc Draf all ut off þe temmple. All att hiss wille wiþþ an wand.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2923 Worpen he ðor wondes dun, Fro euerilc ðor crep a dragun.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xi. 43 In þat ark ware Moyses tables,..and Aaron wand, and þe ȝerde of Moyses.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. viii. 79 My wand he bad in thi present I shuld lay downe and the avyse How it shuld turne to oone serpent.
1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) i. xviii. 109/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I If it..be accompted good soile, on which a man may laie a wand ouer night, and on the morrow find it..ouergrowen with grasse.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxiv. vi. 492 [He] made no more adoe, but with a wand or rod that he had in his hand, drew a circle about the king, and compelled him perforce to give him his answere before he stirred his foot without that compasse.
1603 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 487/2 Reddendo unam virgam agrifolii (ane grene holene wand) nomine albe firme.
c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) iii. 1007 He that desires to breake a bunch of wandes, Must not take all at once into his handes.
1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 49 Moses holding a wand in his hand, did cast it from him, and it became a serpent.
1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. iv. 157 Sigebert..they..carried by force out of the Monastery into the Camp; where acting the Monk rather then the Captain, with a single wand in his hand, he was slain with Egric.
b. As a type of slenderness or straightness.
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the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [noun] > long, narrow and straight object
sticka1475
wand1508
spill1594
rod1820
1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 186 Ane hundreth ladyes..With..mydlis small as wandis.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. iii. 20 Now sir, this staffe is my sister: for, looke you, she is as white as a lilly, and as small as a wand.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > something to lean on > staff to lean on > cane
wand1548
cane1590
rattan1657
Japan1678
whangee1776
rattan stick1812
Malacca cane1844
crutch-cane1846
dragon cane1851
Malacca1871
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark vi. f. 6–9 For he geueth them leaue to vse eche one a wande, and a payre of sandals.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Thrasibulus in Panoplie Epist. 202 Bringing him into the corne field, and smyting off, with a wand that I helde in my hande, the eares of wheate.
1607 Merrie Iests George Peele 6 I thanke you Sir, quoth the Barber so on goes George with him in his greene Jerken, a wand in his hand very prety.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 294 His Spear, to equal which the tallest Pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the Mast Of some great Ammiral, were but a wand, He walkt with. View more context for this quotation
1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 47 From hence our conductor led us through several dark walks..talking to himself, and flourishing a wand which he held in his hand.
d. A stick used as a pointer.
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society > education > teaching > means of teaching > [noun] > teaching aids > specific
abacusa1387
fescue1513
wand1589
feasetraw1595
pointer1658
sandboard1817
letter card1819
object chart1866
teaching specimen1881
realia1894
filmstrip1896
visual aid1911
flash card1923
flannelgraph1944
teaching machine1958
manipulative1965
kit1968
1589 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations Ep. Ded. sig. *2 He pointed with his wand to all the knowen..Empires, Kingdomes, Dukedomes, and Territories of ech part, with declaration also of their speciall commodities, & particular wants.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xxviii. 251 Mrs. Jarley..formally invested her with a willow wand, long used by herself for pointing out the characters.
2.
a. A young shoot, a slender stem of a shrub or tree, a sapling; a slender branch or twig. Obsolete exc. poetic (rare) and dialect. †under the wand: in the greenwood.
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the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [noun]
sproteeOE
wiseOE
spronkOE
wrideOE
brodc1175
wanda1300
breerc1320
scion?c1335
spraya1387
spriga1398
springa1400
sprouta1400
spiringc1400
shoota1450
youngling1559
forth-growing1562
spirk1565
sprouting1578
surcle1578
chive1583
chit1601
spurt1601
sprit1622
germen1628
spurge1630
spirt1634
brairding1637
springet1640
set1658
shrubble1674
underling1688
sobolesa1722
branchlet1731
springlet1749
sproutling1749
sprang1847
shootlet1889
the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > bough or branch > flexible and slender
rodc1275
wanda1300
wicker?1507
whip1585
switch1616
sway1630
withe1817
the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [adverb]
under the wand?a1500
sylvanly1800
a1300 Cursor Mundi 1418 Þe pipins war don vnder his [Adam's] tung, Þar ras o þam thre wandes yong.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1161 At vche wende vnder wande wapped a flone.
c1400 Melayne 1213 Þe Messangere bare a wande Of ane Olefe in his hande.
c1400 26 Pol. Poems xv. 60 For al þe body beren þay [sc. man's legs], As a tre þat bereþ wandes.
c1440 York Myst. xii. 78 Vpponne þat wande sall springe a floure.
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 537 A toppe of hit [the fig] to sette other a wonde Is holdon best right in Aprilis ende.
1457 J. Hardyng Chron. in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1912) Oct. 746 Men chastyse ofte grete courours by hakenayse, And writhe the wande while it is yonge and grene.
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Two Mice l. 179 in Poems (1981) 10 Scho tuke in mynd hir sister vpon land, And langit..To se quhat lyfe scho led vnder the wand.
1559 in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1565 390/1 Rungis and wandis of hissill and sauch.
1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. D4v They..bent the tree while it was a wand.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. ix. sig. T7 Into a bird it chaung'd, and from him past, Flying from tree to tree, from wand to wand. View more context for this quotation
1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. K1v A Hasle wand a midst a wood of Pynes.
1850 W. Allingham Poems 41 The heart is new As the green wand fresh budded on a fir.
1919 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 645/1 The stem bends like a hazel wand.
b. as a type of suppleness.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > bough or branch > flexible and slender > as a type of suppleness
wand1412
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. 2472 And with hym brouȝt..His slepy ȝerde as plyaunt as a wonde.
a1500 R. Henryson Ressoning betuix Aige & Yowth 13 in Poems (1981) 170 His ene wes how, his voce wes hes hostand, Wallowit and wan and waik as ony wand.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 381 Leicht as ane leif, and waldin as ane wand.
3. A young shoot of willow cut to be used in basket-making, wattled buildings, or the like. Also collective. Now Scottish and dialect.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > willow > twig or rod of
osierc1175
wanda1300
persha1398
withya1400
wicker14..
winding1405
withe1465
yedder1512
writhe1552
writh1810
skein1837
a1300 Cursor Mundi 1672 First bind it wele wit balk and band, And wind it siþen well wit wand.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 6900 A litil chapell of wandes þai made.
1457 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 365 Peid to a man for bondyll wandus jd.
1572 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 375 Cowpe waynes of wandes.
1615 G. Markham Countrey Contentments i. i. 14 Which seats would bee either boorded, or watled with stakes and small wands on the sides to hold vp the earth from falling.
1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) I. 29 Ane auld kist made of wands.
1770 J. Coates's Coll. Poems 21 The light machine [the cradle] with decent neatness stands, The jetting sides compos'd of slender wands.
1796 W. H. Marshall Planting I. 187 In Yorkshire, the ‘wands’ are sold by the bundle; but in Glocestershire, where Ozier grounds abound.., the grounds are let..to basket makers.
1803 in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border (ed. 2) III. 267 Your cage shall be of wiry goud, Whar now it's but the wand.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Wan, a long rod to wave into a wattled hedge.
a. A rod, stick, or switch for chastisement; also figurative (in religious use) Obsolete. Also dialect a ‘rod’ or bundle of twigs for flogging.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > rod or birch > in religious use
wand1297
society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > rod or birch
besomc893
yardc1000
rodlOE
baleysa1259
ferule1559
scutcher1611
birch1648
whisk rod1688
twig1736
fasces1762
tickler1765
tickle-tail1785
wand1828
tickle-toby1830
birch-rod1834
birch-wand1876
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 5888 Ȝerd ne vond heo preste non þat child uorto bete.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 2612 Abram said..Þou chasti hir sco [read þou] has þe wand.
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 5878 ‘Þe wande’, he says, ‘of disciplyne smart, Sal chace foly out of þe childes hert’.
c1400 26 Pol. Poems xxiv. 48 To ȝerde of loue y moste me boun; Lord, me chastice wiþ þat wande.
a1425 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Galba) l. 29093 Þe thrid chastiyng..Als wering of haire or oþer thing..þat oþer point to vnderstand, Es kneling and beteing with wand.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) i. 18 Quhiddir that this dolorus afflictione be ane vand of the fadir to correct & chestie the sone be mercy, or [etc.].
1633 A. Johnston Diary (1911) I. 46 If I..had humbled myselth unto the Lord whil the wand was above my head, the Lord would haive spaired.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Wand, a rod, a collection of twigs, used for correction.
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society > authority > subjection > in or into subjection [phrase] > under control > under the rule or control of
under the yardc1275
under the wandc1400
(to have, hold) under one's girdle1541
c1400 Rule St. Benet ii. 6 Wide summe sal tu faire speke, and summe gete wid chastiment & haue þam under wand.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 99 The Emperour has mony syndry kynde of peple vnder his wand.
1575 in A. Macdonald & J. Dennistoun Misc. Maitland Club (1833) I. 125 Thair is sum brether quhilk ar nocht under the vand of the prouest and bailyeis of the burgh.
1609 J. Skene tr. Quoniam Attach. in Regiam Majestatem xx Sa lang as her husband was livand, she was vnder his wand and power.
5. A stick or switch for urging on a horse. Obsolete exc. dialect.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > urge on > with a whip > (types of) whip
wandc1400
rod?a1475
riding rod?a1549
switch1597
quirka1616
whippet1616
shambrier1667
horsewhipa1691
whip-stick1782
lash-whip1787
flogger1789
string1839
nagaika1842
whalebone1842
quirt1845
switcher1847
ash-plant1850
hunting-crop1857
dick1864
bow-whip1890
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxvi. 122 Þai hase owþer in þaire hand a whippe or a wand.
1529 D. Lindsay Compl. 180 [Thay] nother sparit spurris nor wandis.
1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell: Horses (1596) 189 If your horse chance to tyre on the way, if spurre, and wande will not profit, ye shall put three or foure rounde peble stones into one of his eares.
1607 ‘W. S.’ Puritaine iii.39 Ile haue an Hackney-mans wand siluerd ore a purpose for you.
1610 Bible (Douay) II. Ecclus. xxxiii. 25 Fodder, and wande [so 1611; Coverdale 1535, Geneva 1560 whippe; 1894 R.V. stick; Gk. ῥάβδος. L. virga], and burden for an asse.
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society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > regalia > [noun] > sceptre
kine-yardOE
wandc1330
sceptrea1340
king's wanda1400
king wanda1400
sceptre-wandc1485
mace1559
sceptre-staff1842
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 909 Rohand he ȝaf þe wand And bad him sitt him bi.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7864 Þai sett a ceptre in his hand, þat man clepes kyngs wand.
c1440 Alphabet of Tales lxxx. 62 He had in his hand a golden wand of þe kynges.
a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 1891 For he [God] forsuth haith ifyne hyme the wond To Iustefy and Reull in pece his lond.
7. figurative.a1894 R. L. Stevenson In South Seas (1896) i. vi. 48 Our chief..was always called..Taipi-kikino; and yet that was not his name, but only the wand of his false position.
a. A rod or staff borne as a sign of office; esp. a tall slender rod of white wood, sometimes of ebony or silver, carried erect by an officer of the royal household or of a court of justice, by a verger or beadle, or by an official whose duty it is to walk before a judge or other high dignitary on occasions of ceremony.
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society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > [noun] > staff or rod
yardc1275
tipped stickc1386
bastona1400
mace?a1419
wandc1430
warderc1440
baculc1449
roda1450
verge1493
staff1535
tipstaff1541
verger1547
truncheon1573
vare1578
baton?1590
trunch1590
fasces1598
macer wanda1600
virge1610
batoona1652
stick1677
shaku1875
poker1905
c1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 1327 That day in stede of a white wonde A staf he bare thoo in his honde.
c1472 Acct. of Debts (Brasenose Coll. Oxf. Archives) (Hurst Cal. of Munim. 6, Cold Norton 36) A won of the bullard of the place.
c1503 Beuys of Southhamptowne (Pynson) 3243 Delyuer me thy wande, For Guy, his fader, was my marchal, And so syr Beuys, hys son, shal!
1573 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 200 Poles and Wandes for the Lictors.
1598 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. (new ed.) f. 51 v Do shamefull penance,..Rong with a bell, a Taper in my hand, Bare-foot to trudge, before a Beedles wand.
1610 in J. Davidson Inverurie & Earldom of Garioch (1878) vi. 194 Comperit Patrick Leslie, John Johnston,..bailzies, and freely dischargit thame of their offices of bailzies, and jurisdiction thereof, be deliverance of the wand in the hands of the clerk and consall.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) i. ii. 28 Me thought this staffe mine Office-badge in Court Was broke in twaine:..And on the peeces of the broken Wand Were plac'd [etc.] . View more context for this quotation
a1618 W. Raleigh Prerogatiue Parl. (1628) 19 What say you to the Parliaments of the White Wands in the three and thirtieth yeere of the King?
1713 J. Swift Faggot in Wks. (1735) II. 98 Stewards..who in solemn Sort Appear with slender Wands at Court.
1728 E. Young Love of Fame: Universal Passion (ed. 2) i. 207 Some lords it bids admire their wands so white, Which bloom, like Aaron's, to their ravish'd sight.
1776 Pennsylvania Evening Post 9 Apr. 178/2 His Excellency General Washington, the other General Officers and their sutes,..met in the Council Chamber, from whence, preceded by the Sheriff with his Wand, they repaired to the Old Brick Meeting House.
1789 W. Belsham Ess. I. xiv. 259 A ribband, a title, or a white wand, have been as eagerly pursued..as knowledge, virtue, and everlasting happiness.
1805 R. Southey Madoc i. xiii. 131 On either hand Three Priests uphold above, on silver wands, The purple pall.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 293 Up rise the visitors; in march fourteen stewards, each with a long wand in his hand, like the evil genius in a pantomime.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xix. 183 There is only one Judge in town... If the country folks of those assize towns on his circuit could only see him now! No full-bottomed wig, no red petticoats, no fur, no javelin-men, no white wands.
1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise Prol. 5 And in their hands Long carven silver-banded ebony wands.
b. Applied to the caduceus of Hermes or Mercury.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > Hermes or Mercury > wand of
wandc1407
caduceus1591
serpent-wand1849
c1407 J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte 1736 He [Mercury] helde a yerde in his ryght honde, That so mervelous a wonde was neuer sen.
1645 R. Stapleton tr. Musaeus Ερωτοπαιγνιον: Loves Hero & Leander B 3 b Brought to your service by his golden dart, As rough Alcides by the golden wand Of Hermes, to the Lydian Maid's command.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 307 But first he [sc. Hermes] grasps within his awful Hand, The mark of Sov'raign Pow'r, his Magick Wand.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. x. 337 A God Met me, the bearer of the golden wand, Hermes.
8. † b. Scots Law. wand of peace: a silver-tipped baton delivered to an outlaw in token of his restoration to the king's peace; also carried by a king's messenger as the symbol of his office, and broken by him (by way of protest) if he was resisted in the execution of his duty.
a. A staff or baton serving as a symbol in certain legal transactions.
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society > law > transfer of property > putting in possession > [noun] > handing over of symbol of possession > object handed over > specific
wandc1420
turf1585
verge1607
c1420 Wyntoun Cron. viii. xii. 1963 Þis Iohun þan tuk vp a qwyt wande, And gaf vp in þis Edwardis hande Off þis Kynrik al þe richt Þat he had.
1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. ix. 254 The wand which the claimant held in his hand is stated by Gaius to have represented a spear.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > resumption or restoration of rights > [noun] > restitution of outlaw > token of
wand of peace1511
1511 Reg. Privy Seal Scot. I. 355/2 With power to the schireffis..to relesch him fra the horne and deliver him the wand of pece, etc.
1564–5 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. I. 311 Restoir him to oure Soverane Ladiis peace, and gif to him the wand thairof.
1672 Rec. Justiciary Court Edinb. (S.H.S.) II. 76 He and other persons lybelled, beat and wounded the Messenger after he had laid hold upon the said Hary and touched him with his wand of peace several times.
1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. i. 259 The Wand of Peace is that whereby they touch a Rebel, and declares him to be their Prisoner, and when they are deforced, they use to break the Wand of Peace.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. vii. 135 Here, where I brake the wand of peace ower him..bid God bless..the just heir of Ellangowan.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. xiii. 275 If you interrupt me in my duty, I will break the wand of peace and declare myself deforced.
a. A measuring rod. (Cf. metewand n., yard-wand n., ell-wand n.) Also Mining, a measure of 8 feet. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > for measuring length > measuring rod or stick
yardc1000
meteyardOE
reedc1350
ell-yardc1400
yard-wand14..
scantillona1425
gad1440
metewand1440
meterod1473
rod1473
ell1474
gad-wand1487
ell-wand?a1500
measuring rod1546
scantling1556
metepole1571
meting pole1606
wand1614
yardstick1797
yard-measure1838
gad-stick1866
meting-rod1881
the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > length of foot > eight feet
wand1614
1614 B. Jonson in W. Raleigh Hist. World sig. pi1v Guided by Experience, whose streight wand Doth mete, whose Line doth sound the depth of things.
1670 J. Pettus Fodinæ Regales 86 And a Meer shall contain in length 10 wands and 7 feet, that is to say 87 feet.
c1730 A. Ramsay Maltman (1877) II. ii. 204 Maltmen come for siller, And gaugers with wands o'er soon.
1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein I. iii. 99 Your..sentiments..rather belong to the sword than the measuring wand.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > other units of land measure
wandalec1150
wista1200
landc1400
ridge1439
peck1442
scrophec1450
buttc1460
rig1485
mark1488
stick1531
farthingdeal1543
plough-gang1548
quarterland1563
ploughgate1565
last1576
wand1596
ox-skin1610
garbred1621
plank1631
nooka1634
buttal1635
farthinga1640
rick1641
familia1676
rhandir1688
setiera1690
worthine1701
fierding1768
whip-land1811
rai1933
1596 Yorksh. Deeds (Yorks. Archaeol. Soc., Rec. Ser.) II. 191 [Two] wandes [of meadow] in the Northe Inges.
1684 Rector's Bk., Clayworth (1910) 67 Meadow in Easting 5 Wands, Arable 1½ Ac.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bones of arm or leg > bones of arm > [noun] > bones of forearm > radius
speel-bone1307
cubit1398
wand-bone1488
radius1578
wand1634
shuttle1662
spoke-bonea1836
radius bone1910
1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. vi. xxvi. 217 The cubite is composed of two bones, the one of which we call the Radius or Wand.
11.
a. A magic rod; the staff used in enchantments by a fairy or a magician. Now the most prominent sense. Cf. French baguette. Also figurative.
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the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun] > magical object > wand
wanda1400
charming-rod1601
staffa1616
rune-staff1705
a1400–50 Wars Alex. 57 On hiȝt in his a hand haldis a wand And kenely be coniurisons callis to him spritis.
a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 311 in Poems (1981) 121 This duleful sentence Saturne tuik on hand,..And on hir heid he laid ane frostie wand.
1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 42 A Siluer wande the sorceresse did sway.
1637 J. Milton Comus 23 Nay Ladie sit; if I but wave this wand, Your nervs are all chain'd up in alabaster [printed alablaster].
1667 J. Dryden Indian Emperour ii. i. 15 High-Priest..Once, twice, and thrice, I wave my Sacred Wand, Ascend, ascend, ascend at my command. [An Earthy Spirit rises.]
1745 E. Young Consolation 107 Sleep's dewy Wand Has strok'd my drooping Lids; and promises..My long Arrear of Rest.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho I. i. 45 If I creep near yonder oak she will wave her fairy wand.
1798 W. Wordsworth Peter Bell Prol. 146 A potent wand doth Sorrow wield.
1849 W. Irving Oliver Goldsmith (rev. ed.) xlv. 377 His pen is a wand of power in his hand.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxxvi. 353 If a good fairy had built the house for me with a wave of her wand..I could not have been more considered in it.
1914 19th Cent. Feb. 262 Such a view, attributing as it does magical powers to the wand of the legislator, is in absolute contradiction with facts.
b. transf. electric wand n. see quot. 1898.
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1898 T. O'C. Sloane Standard Electr. Dict. (ed. 2) 627 Torch, Electric Gas Lighting, a portable apparatus for producing a spark for gas lighting... Synonym—Electric Wand.
12. A fishing-rod. Now chiefly Scottish.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > rod > [noun]
angle-rodc1450
rodc1450
angling rod1510
gada1535
fishing-rod1552
angling wand1565
wand1565
pole1577
fishing-pole1791
fish pole1834
fishing-wand1889
1565 Sir W. Cecil in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. II. 296 I dowt not but though yow shall be farr off, yow will use a long anglyng wand to catch some knoledg.
1839 T. T. Stoddart Songs & Poems 13 To all wights of the wand Welcome are ye!
1895 ‘Cotswold Isys’ Lyra Piscat. 102 And under the shade of the beechen boughs, I deftly ply my wand.
1913 N. Munro New Road xx He made a fire, and cut a wand, and dropped a maggot in a pool and caught two little fishes.
13. The straight rigid pipe linking the cleaning head to the hose of a vacuum cleaner.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > vacuum-cleaning > [noun] > vacuum-cleaner > part of
wand1940
1940 E. Hemingway For whom Bell Tolls xi. 149 The round opening at the end of the wand of a vacuum cleaner.
1967 Boston Sunday Herald 9 Apr. (advt.) Attachments include braided hose, two wands and rug-bare floor tool.
1978 Choice (Austral. Consumers' Assoc.) Nov. 378 Most vacuum cleaners these days have moulded plastic bodies. Hoses are plastic or cloth covered, and some are of the ‘stretch’ variety. Wands and cleaning heads tend to be either plastic, steel or aluminium or a combination of these.
14. A hand-held electronic device which can be passed over a bar code to read the data it represents and convert them into a computer-compatible form.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [noun] > scanner
drum scanner1928
optical character reader1962
optical scanner1962
wand1978
1978 Bookseller 17 June 3196/1 The light pen, or ‘wand’, that could read machine-readable codes on books.
1980 Sci. Amer. Apr. 111/1 (advt.) As part of a portable data entry system, the wand can be used to read shelf tags for inventory control and order entry.
1982 What's New in Computing Nov. 62/1 Intermec designs and manufactures..scanning wands for the printing and computer reading of tickets, tags and labels.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
wandlike adj.
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1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xxi. 98 Such a one my daughter might haue beene: My Queenes square browes, her stature to an inch, as wandlike -straight. View more context for this quotation
1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. X6 Virgatus caulis, a rod-like or wand-like stem or branch.
1836 M. Scott Cruise of Midge ii. 27 The wand-like tops of the polacre's tall masts.
1847 W. Darlington Agric. Bot. p. xxxi/2 Virgate, wand-like; long, slender, and straight.
1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel II. vii. 124 Know you those wand-like touches of I know not what, before which our grosser being melts.
C2. With the sense ‘made of wicker-work’ (Scottish).
wand-basket n.
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1694 in A. W. C. Hallen Acct. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894) 165 For 2 wand baskits, 1 1 0.
wand-bed n.
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c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 446 The young laird lying sore seik also..was transportit in ane wandbed..fra the tolbuith to the castell.
wand-cage n.
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1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch i. 10 A blackbird..hung above his head in a whand-cage of my faither's making.
wand-chair n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > cane or wicker chair
basket chaira1631
wand-chair1680
cane-chair1696
wicker1740
Madeira chair1885
1680 in A. W. C. Hallen Acct. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894) 40 To mrs urqrt to buy a bairns wand-chair, 2 18 0.
1685 G. Sinclair Satans Invisible World Discovered 98 The Maid did start up out of a Wand-Chair, where she sat.
1898 N. Munro John Splendid xv ‘It's your welcome, Argile,’ said I, putting a wand chair to the front for him.
C3. (In sense 10.)
wand-smitten adj.
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1897 H. N. Howard Footsteps Proserpine 41 As from the nebulous elemental sea, Wand-smitten by the Eternal Mind, Earth rose.
wand-stricken adj.
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1847 M. Howitt Ballads 267 Like that old mystery Of the wand-stricken rock.
C4. † wand-bone n. (Scottishwan beyn) Obsolete = sense 9.† wand-church n. (also wand-kirk) Obsolete cf. wanded adj. 1b.† wandclot n. dialect Obsolete meaning obscure.† wand-hand n. Scottish Obsolete the hand that holds the wand or whip.
wand-bearer n. one who carries a wand in a procession or otherwise as a sign of office; spec. as the title of certain honorary lay officials of St. Paul's Cathedral, London.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > ceremonial officials > [noun] > usher > bearing a rod or staff
vergerc1402
vergerer1572
virgifer1629
virger1671
stavesman1786
wand-bearer1840
1840 H. Cockton Life Valentine Vox xv Two wand-bearers started off immediately for the men who were elsewhere engaged in the museum.
1872 H. P. Liddon in J. O. Johnston Life & Lett. H. P. Liddon (1904) vii. 168 Thanksgiving Day... Mr. Foster, John and Mr. G. A. Spottiswoode, as wand-bearers, were present. We all got into church at 9.30.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 422 He has been a true mystic and not a mere routineer or wand-bearer.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bones of arm or leg > bones of arm > [noun] > bones of forearm > radius
speel-bone1307
cubit1398
wand-bone1488
radius1578
wand1634
shuttle1662
spoke-bonea1836
radius bone1910
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xii. l. 123 On the wan bayn with gret Ire can him ta, Cleyffyt the cost rycht cruelly in twa.
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society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > church or place of worship > [noun] > made of wattle-work
wand-church?c1450
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 6125 A kirke..wand kirke was called beforne.
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1397 in J. Raine Charters Priory Finchale (1837) p. cxviii Item ij wand-clots et j stapyll.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > hand > [noun] > right hand
right handOE
destera1300
right halfc1350
right sidea1382
sword-hand1531
wand-hand1637
pistol hand1702
spear-hand1728
thumb-hand1750
whip hand1806
dexter1814
1637 S. Rutherford Let. 17 June in Joshua Redivivus (1664) 283 The devil and temptations now have the advantage of the brae of you, and are upon your wand-hand and your working hand.
1684 J. Renwick Choice Coll. (1776) 54 There is no land or church that is likely to get the wand-hand, so to speak, of Scotland.
wand-weaver n. dialect a basket-maker.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > manufacture of fabric from specific materials > manufacture of articles made from twigs, etc. > basket-making > one who
leap maker1360
pannier-maker1412
skepper1499
basket-maker1603
wand-weaver1896
1896 Leeds Mercury Weekly Suppl. 12 Sept. in Eng. Dial. Dict. His two uncles, by trade wand-weavers.
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a. More fully curling wand, styling wand: a heated appliance used for curling or styling hair. mascara wand n. a small applicator for mascara, etc., usually with a brush at one end.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > implements used in styling the hair > [noun] > curling implement
crisping-iron?a1400
bodkin1580
curling-bodkin1610
curling-iron1632
curling-tongs1763
crisping-tongs1773
pinching iron1789
tongs1843
crumpling-irons1854
roulette1860
curler1887
waver1895
permanent waver1916
wand1962
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the face > [noun] > instruments or applicators > for mascara
mascara wand1982
1962 McCall's Apr. 108 To apply [mascara]..use a magnifying mirror and either brush or wand.
1967 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Oct. 128/2 Mascara comes in four forms: cake, cream, roll-on and brush-on... Wands, either roll-on or brush-on, are applied directly from the applicator.
1974 Good Housek. (N.Y.) July 79/1 If the sides of your hair are tapered, a styling wand will curl them back for a ‘winged’ effect.
1982 N.Y. Times Mag. 29 Aug. vi. 240/4 While cleaning out the bathroom medicine chest you find a four-year-old mascara wand that was used only once. Should you toss it out?
1989 B. A. Mason Love Life 55 Carefully, Sue Ellen smudged her eyeliner with a sponge-tipped wand.
1991 Hair Styling Feb. 21/2 When the rollers have cooled, brush hair out, using a curling wand to work in distinct waves moving back from the face, then spritz with spray for all-night hold.
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wandv.
/wɒnd/, U.S. /wɑnd/ 1. transitive. To wattle, interweave, plait. to wand in, to enclose with wattle-work. Scottish and dialect.
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the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > intertwine or interweave [verb (transitive)]
wind971
braidc1000
writheOE
biwevec1300
enlacec1374
winda1387
tracec1400
bredec1440
knit1470
embraid1481
interlace1523
entrail?1530
wreathea1547
beknit1565
twist1565
wand1572
embroid1573
mat1577
complect1578
intertex1578
inweave1578
lace1579
plight1589
entwine1597
bewreath1598
interweave1598
implicate1610
twine1612
complicatea1631
implex1635
intertwine1641
plash1653
enwreathe1667
raddle1671
intertwist1797
pleach1830
impleach1865
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclose [verb (transitive)] > with wattle-work
to wand in1572
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 368 He kest twa Creillis on ane Capill, with Coillis anew, Wandit thame with widdeis, to wend on that wane.
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 31v Now make & wandin [1577 ‘wand in’], trym bower to stand in. Leaue waddling about, till arbor be out.
c1593 in J. Raine Descr. Anc. Monuments Church of Durham (1842) 57 From the wandyd kirke or chapell they brought the body of that holie man Sancte Cuthbert and translayted him into an other White Kirke.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words The gate's wanded wi' thorns, so nowt can get in.
2. To beat with a wand or switch. Scottish and dialect.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > with cane, birch, or switch
yerda1225
baleys1377
whisk1530
jerk1550
wanda1585
switch?1611
canea1667
bamboo1816
birch1830
a1585 Ld. Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 755 Tait mow, wilde sow! soone bow, or I wand thee.
1657 Attest Innocency Z. Crofton 10 The Father..bad him if shee offended to take a wand and wand his daughter.
1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Bran yo, I'll wan yo'r hide fo' yŏ.
3. transitive. To scan the bar code on (an article) using a wand (wand n. 14).
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > use keyboard [verb (transitive)] > scan bar code
wand1979
1979 Bookseller 22 & 29 Dec. 2693/2 Books could be ‘wanded’ at the point of sale and the information stored on cassettes.
1982 Fortune 27 Dec. 100/1 Go to Section X, Jack, and wand all the woofers.
Derivatives
ˈwanding n.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > beating with stick, rod, or cane
bastinado1572
wanding1585
oil of hazel1604
rodding1616
rib-basting1659
birching1838
tunding1866
1585–6 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. IV. 44 Thay have compellit thame, be onlaying of foull hands and feirfull kynd of wanddingis, to satisfie thair..impostis.
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transitive. To pass a hand-held metal detector over (a person) for security purposes.
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1989 Washington Post 19 Aug. c1 Look at that.., they are wanding the Kissingers! Isn't that hysterical?
1998 Independent (Nexis) 19 Nov. 2 A prisoner at the maximum-security prison HMP Whitemoor is ‘wanded’ (checked with a metal detector) by a prison officer as he leaves the kitchen.
2004 AKC Gaz. June 73 Because she had a defibrillator, the guards couldn't wand her and had to pat her down by hand.
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