Meaning of stound | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An hour.
   dialectal, obsolete
2. A stand; a stop.
   UK, dialectal
3. A receptacle for holding small beer.
4. A tide, season.
   obsolete
5. A time, length of time, hour, while.
   archaic, dialectal
6. A brief span of time, moment, instant.
   archaic, dialectal
7. A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
8. A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.
   dialectal
9. A stroke or blow (from an object or weapon); (by extension) a lashing; scourging
10. A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.
11. Astonishment; amazement.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Lightly he started up out of that stound.”

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

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

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