stound

plural stounds · alternative Scotland stund · alternative Scotland stoind · alternative Scotland stoond · alternative Scotland stoon · alternative Scotland stoun · alternative Scotland stuind

1. dialectalobsoletechronologyAn hour.

   What booth wilt thou have? our king reply'd / Now tell me in this stound

   1765, Percy's Reliques, The King and the Tanner of Tamworth (original license: 1564)

2. obsoleteA tide, season.
3. archaicdialectalA time, length of time, hour, while.

   He lay and slept, and swet a stound, / And became whole and sound.

   1801, Walter Scott, The Talisman

   Synonyms: span, duration, interval, period, period of time, tide, time, time interval

4. archaicdialectalA brief span of time, moment, instant.

   Listen to me a little stound.

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   And in that same stound / All suddenly she swapt adown to ground.

   1883 [a. 1400], Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Clerk's Tale”, in Henry Morley, editor, Cassell's Library of English Literature, volume 1, page 48

   Synonyms: jiffy, second, bat of an eye, bit, blink of an eye, crack, eyeblink, flash

5. A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
6. dialectalA sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.

   No wonder that they cried unto the Lord, and felt a stound of despair shake their courage

   1857, Alexander Maclaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture

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   ere the point arriued, where it ought, / That seuen-fold shield, which he from Guyon brought / He cast betwene to ward the bitter stound [...].

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

7. A stroke or blow (from an object or weapon); (by extension) a lashing; scourging

   A colt is made of three stounds, I think; it is lighter, much, than the cat. The punishment with the colt is always given without stripping, over the clothes.

   1843, Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, Proceedings of the Court of Inquiry appointed to inquire into the intended mutiny on board the United States Brig of War Somers, on the high seas

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   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.

   1807, Sir Egerton Brydges, Censura Literaria

8. A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.

   […] and run away with him, almost whether he will or not, in a stound of unbearable love!

   1895, Mansie Wauch, The Life of Mansie Wauch: tailor in Dalkeith

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   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.

   1893, The Homoeopathic World

9. Astonishment; amazement.

   Lightly he started up out of that stound.

   1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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   we stood as in a stound, / And wet with tears, like dew, the ground

   1720, John Gay, “Prologue”, in Poems on Several Occasions

present singular third person stounds · participle present stounding · participle past stounded · past stounded · alternative Scotland stund · alternative Scotland stoind · alternative Scotland stoond · alternative Scotland stoon · alternative Scotland stoun · alternative Scotland stuind

1. dialectalintransitiveobsoleteTo hurt, pain, smart.

   Your wrath, weak boy ? Tremble at mine unless Retraction follow close upon the heels Of that late stounding insult […]

   1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, act IV, scene II, verses 93-95

2. dialectalintransitiveobsoleteTo be in pain or sorrow, mourn.
3. dialectalintransitiveobsoleteTo long or pine after, desire.

   Recently weaned children "stound after the breast."

   1823, Edward Moor, Suffolk words and phrases: or, An attempt to collect the lingual localisms of that county

present singular third person stounds · participle present stounding · participle past stounded · past stounded

1. intransitiveobsoleteTo stand still; stop.
2. UKdialectalintransitiveTo stop to listen; pause.

plural stounds

1. UKdialectalA stand; a stop.

plural stounds

1. A receptacle for holding small beer.

   Will Ardnamurchan never end? We're four stounds in a metal box [...]

   1987, Alastair Mackie, Ingaidherins: Selected Poems - Page 54