wone

present singular third person wones · participle present woning · participle past woned · past woned · alternative won · alternative wonne

1. archaicdialectalobsoleteTo live, reside, stay.

   This I make thi wonnyng playce, / ffull of myrth and of solace

   This I make thy dwelling place, full of mirth and solace

   15th c., “[The Creation]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 6

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   For now the best and noblest knight alive Prince Arthur is, that wonnes in Faerie Lond; He hath a sword, that flames like burning brond.

   1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Volume 2, iii:18 (see also i:51, vii:49, ix:52, and xii:69)

   Then we entered the city and found all who therein woned into black stones enstoned[…]

   1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 17

plural wones · alternative won · alternative wonne · alternative woon

1. obsoletepoeticA house, home, habitation, dwelling.

   On the cool height awhile out Palmers ſtay, And ſpite even of themſelves their Senſes chear; Then to the Wizard's Wonne their Steps they ſteer.

   1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, I:XXXVII

2. obsoletepoeticWealth, riches.

   What secret place (quoth he) can safely hold So huge a masse, and hide from heaven's eye? Or where hast thou thy wonne, that so much gold Thou canst preserve from wrong and robbery?

   1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Volume 2, vii:20 (see also xii:11)

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