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1 tondere [CL] 1 to cut the growth or excrescences from, trim: a to cut the hair or nails of, clip. b to shear (sheep). c (p. ppl. as sb.) tonsured monk. a quamdiu psalmi dicuntur nemo ~eatur Lanfr. Const. 158; 1202 coronam sibi fecit et totondit se ad modum clerici SelPlCrown 19; hirsutos tonde Garl. Mor. Scol. 206; quod ibi debent ~ere digitos suos Cust. Cant. 8; [Sclavi] in coma sunt tonsi Eul. Hist. II 62.  b ut greges tonsarum ascendentes de lavacro [cf. Cant. iv 2] Gosc. Aug. Maj. 80C; c1250 quasi agnus coram ~ente se obmutescens [cf. Is. liii 7] Ad. Marsh Ep. 102; 1277 in bident' tundend' et lavand' (Essex) MinAc 843/12 m. 2; 1346 datos custumariis ~entibus bidentes domini iiij d. Rec. Elton 324.  c 1505 quidam Robertus H. ‥ tonsorum unus ex familia collegii Gloucestr' MunCOx 239. 2 to trim (to shape or sim.). b to cut the nap off (cloth), shear. c to pare the edge of (coin), clip. 1232 in vjxx quercubus ~endis et carpentandis KR Mem 12 m. 16.  b 1338 quas pecias [pannorum] predictus J. ‥ dixit predictum W. ‥ ad ~end' sibi liberasse Pl. Mem. Lond. CLA/024/01/02/005 m. 3; 1352 cum xiiij ulnis pro caligis ~endis Ac. Durh. 553; 1425 quod fullones ‥ libere possint ~ere ‥ pannos per ipsos fullitos, si scienciam ~endi habuerint Mem. York II 159; 1463 lego ‥ capellano togam meam talarem de blodio tonsi [sic MS; ? l. tons' j] coloris penulatam cum bever et j capucium de eodem colore eidem toge pertinens Test. Ebor. II 258; 1506 pannos ‥ scindere ‥ tingere, ~ere, aut per fullones parari facere Foed. XIII 134b.  c s1278 Judei ‥ capti sunt ‥ propter tonsuram monete que tunc pudibunde ~ebatur Chr. Peterb. 26; 1340 quod R. de B. habet multam pecuniam tonsam, set per quem nescitur CBaron 99. 3 to cut or trim (growth or excrescence). quattuor exspectavit menses donec illi coma cresceret quo in coronam ~i posset Bede HE IV 1; caveas tibi ‥ / ‥ longos tundere crines / ‥ / coram magnificis D. Bec. 1212; clerici non habent longos capillos sed alte tonsos, ut melius possint audire Beleth RDO 39. 49A; cujus crines tonsi quociens ~ebantur [ME: evesede] vendebantur AncrR 158. 4 (in etym.) to cut. tophus ‥ i. lapis asper, eo quod ambulantes super se ~eat Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 573.

2 tondere v. 3 tundere