2 entries under this word

Maund

Măund, n.

noun

n. [A-S. mand, mond, D. mand, mande, L. Ger. munde; whence Fr. manne, Prov. Fr. mande.]

A hand-basket. [Scot.]
[From Hind. & Per. man.] An East Indian weight, varying in different localities from 24 to about 82 pounds avoirdupois. The Madras maund is 24 or 25 pounds; the Bombay maund, 28 pounds; the Surat maund, 41 pounds, and the bazaar maund, 82 2/7 pounds. Simmonds.

verbintransitive

v. i. [Fr. mendier, to beg. See MENDICATE.]

Sense 1. To mutter; to murmur; to grumble; to beg. Edinburgh Rev.

He was ever maundering by the way how that he met a party of scarlet devils. W. Scott.

Sense 2. To wander in talking; to talk incoherently or idly.