\Wound\,
imp. & p. p. of {Wind} to twist, and {Wind} to sound by
blowing.

\Wound\ (?; 277), n. [OE. wounde, wunde, AS. wund; akin to
OFries. wunde, OS. wunda, D. wonde, OHG. wunta, G. wunde,
Icel. und, and to AS., OS., & G. wund sore, wounded, OHG.
wunt, Goth. wunds, and perhaps also to Goth. winnan to
suffer, E. win. [root]140. Cf. Zounds.]
1. A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a
   breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the
   substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab,
   rent, or the like. --Chaucer.
         Showers of blood Rained from the wounds of
         slaughtered Englishmen.               --Shak.
2. Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to
   feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.
3. (Criminal Law) An injury to the person by which the skin
   is divided, or its continuity broken; a lesion of the
   body, involving some solution of continuity.
Note: Walker condemns the pronunciation woond as a
      ``capricious novelty.'' It is certainly opposed to an
      important principle of our language, namely, that the
      Old English long sound written ou, and pronounced like
      French ou or modern English oo, has regularly changed,
      when accented, into the diphthongal sound usually
      written with the same letters ou in modern English, as
      in ground, hound, round, sound. The use of ou in Old
      English to represent the sound of modern English oo was
      borrowed from the French, and replaced the older and
      Anglo-Saxon spelling with u. It makes no difference
      whether the word was taken from the French or not,
      provided it is old enough in English to have suffered
      this change to what is now the common sound of ou; but
      words taken from the French at a later time, or
      influenced by French, may have the French sound.
{Wound gall} (Zo["o]l.), an elongated swollen or tuberous
   gall on the branches of the grapevine, caused by a small
   reddish brown weevil ({Ampeloglypter sesostris}) whose
   larv[ae] inhabit the galls.

\Wound\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wounded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Wounding}.] [AS. wundian. [root]140. See {Wound}, n.]
1. To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of
   parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.
         The archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the
         archers.                              --1 Sam. xxxi.
                                               3.
2. To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect,
   ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to.
         When ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their
         weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. --1 Cor.
                                               viii. 12.