Obs. Forms: 1 ænid, ænit, enid, ened, 3 hende, 4–5 enede, 5 heynde, ende. [OE. ęned str. fem. = MDu. aned, anet, Du. eend, OHG. anat, -et, -it, -ot (Ger. ente), ON. önd (Sw., Da. and). Cf. Lat. anat-em.] A duck.
a. 700. Epinal Gloss., 17. Aneta, ænid.
[a. 800. Erfurt Gloss., ænit, Corpus Gloss. enid].
c. 1300. Havelok, 1241. Ne was ther spared gos ne henne, Ne the hende, ne the drake.
c. 1325. Gloss. W. de Bibbesw., in Wr.-Wülcker, 143. En marreis ane iaroille [enede queketh].
c. 1430. Bk. Hawkyng, in Rel. Ant., I. 302. For to make hawke high of astate … take the weng of an enede.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 139. Ende, dooke byrde, anas.
c. 1475. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 760. Hec anata, a heynd.
Ende, erron. var. HENDE a. Obs. gracious.
