stound
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
stound (plural stounds)
- (chronology, obsolete or dialectal) An hour.
- 1765, Percy's Reliques, The King and the Tanner of Tamworth (original license: 1564):
- 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):
- (obsolete) A tide, season.
- (archaic or dialectal) A time, length of time, hour, while.
- 1801, Walter Scott, The Talisman:
- He lay and slept, and swet a stound, / And became whole and sound.
- 1801, Walter Scott, The Talisman:
- (archaic or dialectal) A brief span of time, moment, instant.
- Listen to me a little stound.
- A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
- (dialectal) A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.
- 1857, Alexander Maclaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture:
- No wonder that they cried unto the Lord, and felt a stound of despair shake their courage
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
- ere the point arriued, where it ought, / That seuen-fold shield, which he from Guyon brought / He cast betwene to ward the bitter stound [...].
- 1857, Alexander Maclaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture:
- A stroke or blow (from an object or weapon); (by extension) a lashing; scourging
- 1807, Sir Egerton Brydges, Censura Literaria:
- 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.
- 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:
- 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.
- 1807, Sir Egerton Brydges, Censura Literaria:
- A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.
- 1893, The Homoeopathic World:
- 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.
- 1895, Mansie Wauch, The Life of Mansie Wauch: tailor in Dalkeith:
- [...] and run away with him, almost whether he will or not, in a stound of unbearable love!
- 1893, The Homoeopathic World:
- Astonishment; amazement.
- Russian: срочность
stound (stounds, present participle stounding; past and past participle stounded)
- (obsolete or dialectal, intransitive) To hurt, pain, smart.
- 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act IV, Scene II, verses 93-95
- 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
- (obsolete or dialectal, intransitive) To be in pain or sorrow, mourn.
- (obsolete or dialectal, intransitive) To long or pine after, desire.
- 1823, Edward Moor, Suffolk words and phrases: or, An attempt to collect the lingual localisms of that county:
- 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:
stound (stounds, present participle stounding; past and past participle stounded)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To stand still; stop.
- (intransitive, UK dialectal) To stop to listen; pause.
stound (plural stounds)
Nounstound (plural stounds)
- A receptacle for holding small beer.
- 1987, Alastair Mackie, Ingaidherins: Selected Poems - Page 54:
- Will Ardnamurchan never end? We're four stounds in a metal box [...]
- 1987, Alastair Mackie, Ingaidherins: Selected Poems - Page 54:
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