onding

Etymology

From Middle English ondyng, equivalent to onde (“to breathe, breathe on”) + -ing.

noun

Breathing; smelling.
A heavy, continuous fall of rain or snow; a downpour.“... they inform the rest, with inward sorrow, that it is still "a terrible onding." So the circle is once more formed. Some one now proposes a game o' cairts, and the pack is produced.”