v. [ad. L. effund-ĕre, f. ex out + fund-ĕre to pour.]
trans. To pour out (lit. and fig.); to shed (blood); to pour out the contents of (a vessel).
c. 1420. Pallad. on Husb., IV. 107. Oyldregges salt effunde uppon the roote [of olives].
a. 1500. Cuckow & Night. Lenvoye, Suspires which I effunde in silence!
1550. Bale, Image Both Ch., II. I ij b (T.). After this went forth the seconde angel … effundinge his vial upon the sea.
1578. Banister, Hist. Man, V. 70. The Arterie being from that deriued, which is effunded into the liuer.
1647. H. More, Poems, 51. If he his life effund To utmost death.
1719. D’Urfey, Pills (1872), III. 322. Much Blood they effund.
1776. trans. Da Costa’s Conchol., 60. Several [kinds of shells] … effund this purple juice.
1866. J. Rose, trans. Ovid’s Fasti, II. 146. Now doth the Idæan boy appear Effunding … nectar rare.
