Now dial. Forms: 3 kundlen, 5 kyndlyn, kyndel, -il, (6 -yll), 5–6 kyndle, 7 kindel(l, 6–8 kindle; 4–6 kendle; 4 kynel-, kinel-, 5 kynle(n, kinlyn, 8 kinnel, 9 dial. kinnle, kennel. [Cf. KINDLE sb.] trans. Of a female animal: To bring forth, give birth to (young). Also fig.
c. 1220. Bestiary, 16. Wanne he is ikindled Stille lið ðe leun.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 328. Euerich on [sin] kundleð more and wurse kundles þen þe sulue moder.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter vii. 15. Bihald, he kyneld [v.r. kineled] un-rightwisnesse, Onfang sorwe and bare wickednesse.
1579–80. North, Plutarch (1895), III. 275. A rat was taken full of young, and kendled five young rats in the trappe.
1600. Shaks., A. Y. L., III. ii. 358. As the Conie that you see dwell where shee is kindled.
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Rabbit, When a Doe has kinnell’d one Nest, and then kinnell’d another, the first must be taken from her.
b. absol. (Of hares or rabbits.)
c. 1310. Prophecy (MS. Harl. 2253), in Thomas Erceld. (1875), Introd. 18. When hares kendles oþe herston.
1486. Bk. St. Albans, E iij. Now of the hare … Other while he is male … And other while female and kyndelis by kynde.
1530. Palsgr., 598/2. A konny kyndylleth every moneth in the yere.
1614. Markham, Cheap Husb. (1623), 131. The Females [of Rabbits or Conies] after they have kindled, hide their young ones.
1781. W. Blane, Ess. Hunt. (1788), 102. The Doe makes choice of some thick dry brake … to kindle in.
1810. Treat. Live Stock, 170 (E.D.D.). The males or bucks should be parted from the does, or females, till the latter kindle.
1828. Craven Dial., Kinnle, To bring forth young.
† c. intr. To be born. Obs. rare.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 696. Þat euer he kyndild [Dubl. MS. come] of his kynde kend he bot litill.
