Stound

/staʊnd/ · noun

Meaning

(chronology, obsolete or dialectal) An hour..

Definitions by Sense

1. (chronology, obsolete or dialectal) An hour.
2. (obsolete) A tide, season.
3. (archaic or dialectal) A time, length of time, hour, while.
4. (archaic or dialectal) A brief span of time, moment, instant.
5. A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
6. (dialectal) A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.
7. A stroke or blow (from an object or weapon); (by extension) a lashing; scourging
8. A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.

Example Sentences

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

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

Listen to me a little stound.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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Word Forms

• stounds
• stund
• stoind
• stoond
• stoon
• stoun
• stuind
• stounding
• stounded

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