Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A short time; a while.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To ache; smart.
- To long; pine: as, the cows stound for grass.
- noun A time: a short time; a while; a moment; an instant.
- noun Sorrow; grief; longing.
- To stun as with strokes; beat heavily: as, to
stound the ears with the strokes of a bell. - To astound; amaze.
- noun A stunning blow or stroke; the force of a blow.
- noun Astonishment; amazement; bewilderment.
- noun A vessel to contain small beer.
- noun An obsolete past participle of stun.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A sudden, severe pain or grief; peril; alarm.
- noun obsolete Astonishment; amazement.
- noun obsolete Hour; time; season.
- noun obsolete A brief space of time; a moment.
- noun [Obs.] suddenly.
- noun Prov. Eng. A vessel for holding small beer.
- adjective obsolete Stunned.
- intransitive verb Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot. To be in pain or sorrow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A receptacle for holding
small beer . - verb intransitive, obsolete To
stand still;stop . - verb intransitive To stop to
listen ;pause . - noun A
stand ; astop . - noun chronology, obsolete An
hour . - noun obsolete A
tide ,season . - noun archaic or dialectal A
time , length of time,hour ,while . - noun archaic or dialectal A brief span of time,
moment ,instant . - noun A moment or instance of
urgency ;exigence . - noun dialectal A sharp or
sudden pain ; ashock , anattack . - noun A
fit , anepisode or suddenoutburst ofemotion ; arush . - verb intransitive To
hurt ,pain ,smart . - verb intransitive To be in pain or sorrow,
mourn . - verb intransitive To
long orpine after,desire .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Save what happened unto many in the bygone stound.
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He lay and slept, and swet a stound, And became whole and sound.
The Talisman 2008
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He met Runny Babbit hopping where the stound was grony.
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The gunner in that stound with two darts strooke at last,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Ech Mariner, so in that stound that they nothing did feare.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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We just stared at him, and when Eachan spoke it was like a man in a stound.
The Lonely Sea MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1985
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Prince Wynd's heart gave a great stound, and back rushed the blood into his face, that had been so pale and grim, and none was quick enough to come between him and what his heart had told his mind, and what his mind most gladly willed.
Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang
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While in this doubtful stound [4] she stood, she cast her eye aside,
The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick
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And all his sences +stound+, that still he lay full low.
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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Betty, it seemed, from a narrative that gave me a stound of anguish, had never managed to join her father in the boats going over to Cowal the day the MacDonalds attacked the town.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
fbharjo commented on the word stound
stound brief time: moment: now
January 12, 2007
qms commented on the word stound
His voice and his pictures surround,
Like a pair of assailants they pound.
They stab and they wound
And leave us in stound
Then kick us when we’re on the ground.
January 16, 2019
bilby commented on the word stound
So many definitions for a word I've never come across.
June 16, 2022