Obs. exc. dial. Forms: 5–6 gone, 7 yonn, 7– yon. [See prec.] = YOND adv., YONDER adv.
c. 1475. Rauf Coilȝear, 706. In clais of clene gold, kythand ȝone cleir.
c. 1500. Lancelot, 2826. Who is he ȝone?
1608. Middleton, Five Gallants, II. iii. Fulk. Where sir? Gold. Peepe yon sir vnder.
1622. Wither, Philarete, B j b. Here, you might (through the water) see the land, Appeare,… Yonn, deeper was it. Ibid. (1628), Brit. Rememb., 116 b. Yonn lay a heape of skulls.
1632. Milton, Penseroso, 52. But … with thee bring, Him that yon soars on golden wing.
1896. A. E. Housman, Shropsh. Lad, ix. And yon the gallows used to clank Fast by the four cross ways.
b. Hither and yon: hither and thither, this way and that. dial. Cf. YONDER adv. 1 c.
1787. Grose, Prov. Gloss., Hither and yon, here and there, backwards and forwards. North.
1836. Galt, in Tait’s Mag., III. 33. She swayed hither and yon, and was so coggly that I had fears of a catastrophe on the floor.
1883. J. A. Henshall, in Century Mag., July, 379/2. The bass dashed hither and yon at the end of his tether, but all the time working up-stream and toward the rod.
