pyndan to shut up in a pound; forpyndan = to pound (2), pond

[A. S. pund =an inclosure; shut in, to repre ; Icel. pynda to shut in, to torment; O. H. Ger. pinnta =an inclosure; Ir. pont =a pound, a pond.] [PINFOLD, POND.] 1. Ord . Lang .: An inclosure, erected by authority, in which cattle or other beasts found straying are impounded or confined. 2. Hydr. Eng .: The level space of a canal between locks. * Pound of land: Old Eng. Law: An uncertain quantity of land, said to be about 52 acres. ( Wharton .) pound-breach, subst . [A. S. pund - breche .] The forcible removal of cattle, ., from a pound in which they have been impounded. pound-covert, 8. [POUND (2), 8.] pound-keeper, subst. One who has the care or charge of a pound. pound-overt, s. [POUND (2), s.] pound (1), *pownd, v. t. & i. [Prop. poun, the d being excrescent, as in sound, round, v.] [POUN (1).] IMG:content-1415.png:[blocks in formation] "This was the civil and natural habit of that prince; and more might be said if I were not pounded within an epistle."- Reliquiæ Wottoniana , p. 246. pound-age (1), *pond-age (age as Ig), subst. [POUND (1), 8.] I. Ord. Lang .: A deduction from a pound; a sum paid for each pound; a sum or rate per pound; a commi ion paid or deducted on each pound. "A very small poundage on the long compound interest of the thirty pieces of silver."- Burke : On the French Revolution. II. Technically : *Comm.: Payment charged or a e ed by the weight of a commodity. Generally used in com as pounds Troy (containing 12 ounces), pounds Avoirdupois (containing 16 ounces), . A cubic bin at i on with tonnage (more properly, tunnage), inch of distilled water, at 62° Fahr., the barometer that is, an impost on every tun of wine imported being 30 inches, weighs 252 458 Troy grains, and the Troy pound is equal to 5760 of these grains. The Avoirdupois pound is equal to 7000 Troy grains, so that the Troy pound is to the Avoid upo is as 144 to 175. 2. The principal English coin of account, and corresponding to the "coin of circulation" called a sovereign (q. v.), of the value of about $4.80. It is divided into 20 shillings or 240 pence, and weighs 123-27447 Troy grains (7.98805 grammes), as determined by the British Mint regulation, in virtue of which a ma of gold weighing 40 lbs. Troy is coined into 1,869 sovereigns. The name is derived from the fact that in the time of the Conqueror, one Tower pound of silver was coined into 240 silver pence; whence the Tower pennyweight was really and truly the weight of a penny. TIn commemoration of the 50th or "jubilee" year of Victoria's reign, gold pieces valued at £2 and £5 were coined. They are not in general circulation and were coined only in 1887. into or exported from England, the poundage being a duty on merchandise imported or exported. The tonnage was ultimately fixed at 3s., the poundage at 5 per cent. pound-age (age as Ig) (2), 8. [POUND (2), v.] 1. Confinement in a pound. 2. The charge made upon owners of cattle im pounded for straying. *pound-age (age as Ig), v . t . [POUNDAGE (1), subst .] To collect, as poundage; to a e or rate by poundage. "What pa es through the custom-house of certain publicans, that have the tonnag ing and pound aging of all free-spoken truth."- Milton : Areopagitica . pound-al, s. [Eng. pound (1), s.; -al .] Physics: (See extract.) "The British unit of force (that force which, acting on a pound-ma for one second, produces an acceleration of one foot per second) is one poundal ."-A. Daniell : Prin. of Physics , p. 19. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; pour