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Stound
Definitions
- 1 An hour. dialectal, obsolete
"What booth wilt thou have? our king reply'd / Now tell me in this stound"
- 2 A stand; a stop. UK, dialectal
- 3 A receptacle for holding small beer.
"Will Ardnamurchan never end? We're four stounds in a metal box [...]"
- 4 A tide, season. obsolete
- 5 A time, length of time, hour, while. archaic, dialectal
"He lay and slept, and swet a stound, / And became whole and sound."
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- 6 A brief span of time, moment, instant. archaic, dialectal
"Listen to me a little stound."
- 7 A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
- 8 A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack. dialectal
"No wonder that they cried unto the Lord, and felt a stound of despair shake their courage"
- 9 A stroke or blow (from an object or weapon); (by extension) a lashing; scourging
"How many pipes, as many sounds Do still impart To your Sonne's hart / As many deadly wounds : How many strokes, as many stounds, Each stroke a dart, Each stound a smart, Poore captive me confounds."
- 10 A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.
"Several stounds of pain in the cleft between great and second toe (anterior tibial nerve). I forget which side, but I think it was the right. Slight pains in left temple, > pressure. Pain in upper part of right eyeball."
- 11 Astonishment; amazement.
"Lightly he started up out of that stound."
- 1 To hurt, pain, smart. dialectal, intransitive, obsolete
"Your wrath, weak boy ? Tremble at mine unless Retraction follow close upon the heels Of that late stounding insult […]"
- 2 To stand still; stop. intransitive, obsolete
- 3 To be in pain or sorrow, mourn. dialectal, intransitive, obsolete
- 4 To stop to listen; pause. UK, dialectal, intransitive
- 5 To long or pine after, desire. dialectal, intransitive, obsolete
"Recently weaned children "stound after the breast.""
Etymology
From Middle English stond, stounde, stound (“hour, time, season, moment”), from Old English stund (“a period of time, while, hour, occasion”), from Proto-West Germanic *stundu, from Proto-Germanic *stundō (“point in time, hour”), from Proto-Indo-European *stut- (“prop”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”). Cognate with Scots stound (“while, period of time, moment, sudden pain, pang, stroke, blow”), dated Dutch stond (“hour, time, moment”), Low German Stund (“hour”), German Stunde (“hour”), Danish stund (“time, while”), and Swedish stund (“time, while”). Compare Middle English stunden (“to linger, stay, remain for a while”), Icelandic stunda (“to frequent, pursue”). Related to stand.
From Middle English stond, stounde, stound (“hour, time, season, moment”), from Old English stund (“a period of time, while, hour, occasion”), from Proto-West Germanic *stundu, from Proto-Germanic *stundō (“point in time, hour”), from Proto-Indo-European *stut- (“prop”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”). Cognate with Scots stound (“while, period of time, moment, sudden pain, pang, stroke, blow”), dated Dutch stond (“hour, time, moment”), Low German Stund (“hour”), German Stunde (“hour”), Danish stund (“time, while”), and Swedish stund (“time, while”). Compare Middle English stunden (“to linger, stay, remain for a while”), Icelandic stunda (“to frequent, pursue”). Related to stand.
From Middle English stounden, stunden (“to linger, stay, remain for a while”), from Old English *stundian, from Proto-West Germanic *stundōn, from Proto-Germanic *stundōną. Cognate with German stunden (“to defer payment, give time to pay”), Icelandic stunda (“to frequent, pursue”). More at stand.
From Middle English stounden, stunden (“to linger, stay, remain for a while”), from Old English *stundian, from Proto-West Germanic *stundōn, from Proto-Germanic *stundōną. Cognate with German stunden (“to defer payment, give time to pay”), Icelandic stunda (“to frequent, pursue”). More at stand.
From Middle English stound, stonde, stoonde, ston, from Old English stond (“a stand”). Compare stand.
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