An archaic, dialectal, or extremely rare variant of abscond, meaning to flee or hide away.
Possibly a dialectal or Middle English variant of 'abscond', with '-ound' perhaps influenced by other verb formations like 'sound' or 'wound'. The variation suggests regional pronunciation differences that were never standardized.
Old spelling variations like 'abscound' show us how pronunciation varied across regions before dictionaries standardized English—somewhere, someone pronounced 'abscond' with an 'ound' sound!
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