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Und
Definitions
- 1 Initialism of University of North Dakota abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 1 A wave. obsolete, rare
"Lute, Unds, and Sands did long our March oppose, And asp'rous Rocks, the Bulwarks of our Foes."
- 2 A billow- or wave-like marking.
"My Noble Lord, / AFter a long inquiry about the Arms of your Lordships antient House, and the turning of sundry Books of Impresaes and Herauldry, I found your UNDES famous and very honourable. / In our neighbour Countrey of England they are born, but inversed upside down, and diversified. Torquato Tasso in his Rinaldo maketh mention of a Knight who had a Rock placed in the Waves with the Word Rompe ch'il percote. And other hath the Seas waves with a Syren rising out of them, the word Bella Maria, which is the name of some Courtezan."
Etymology
From Middle English unde (“a wave”), from either the Old French unde or Latin unda (“wave”). Doublet of water, ultimately from the same Indo-European root.
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