stound

American  

[stound, stoond] / staʊnd, stund /

noun

1. Archaic. a short time; short while.

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verb (used with or without object)

1. Chiefly Scot. to pain; hurt.

stound British  

/ staʊnd /

noun

1. a short while; instant

2. a pang or pain

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Etymology

Origin of stound

before 1000; (noun) Middle English sto ( u ) nd, Old English stund space of time; cognate with German Stunde, Old Norse stund hour; (v.) Middle English stunden to stay, remain for a stound, derivative of the noun; akin to stand

Example Sentences

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.

From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil

She talk’d, she smil’d, my heart she wyl’d; She charm’d my soul—I wist na how: And ay the stound, the deadly wound, Cam frae her een sae bonnie blue.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

The King smote angrily at Copland then, Angrily in that stound; And then Copland was a bold yeoman, And bore the King to the ground.

From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Sidgwick, Frank

If true lover I become, then to me there cometh not * Save what      happened unto many in the bygone stound.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Just after I was put to my prenticeship, having made free p. 21choice of the tailoring trade, I had a terrible stound of calf-love. 

From The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself by Moir, David Macbeth