cond

• Rhymes: -ɒnd

Clipping.

cond (not comparable)

1. Clipping of conditional.

From Middle English conduen, condien, French conduire (“to conduct”), from Latin conducere.

cond (third-person singular simple present conds, present participle conding, simple past and past participle conded)

1. Obsolete spelling of con (“direct or steer a ship”)
   • 1922, Publications of the Navy Records Society:

     Sometimes he who conds the ship will be speaking to him at helm at every little yaw; which the sea-faring men love not, as being a kind of disgrace to their steerage; then in mockage they will say, sure the channel is narrow he conds so thick […]

• cond in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• no-CD