stound
Americannoun
verb (used with or without object)
noun
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a short while; instant
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a pang or pain
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
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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
Just afterwards I had a terrible stound of calf-love, my first flame being the minister's lassie, Jess, a buxom and forward queen, two or three years older than myself.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur
Two Cantabs ask leave of their Warden "To geve hem leve but a litel stound, To gon to mill and sen hire corn yground." i.e. "to give them leave for a short time."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various
Just after I was put to my prenticeship, having made free choice of the tailoring trade, I had a terrible stound of calf-love.
From The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith by Hardie, Charles Martin
Forceless, perforce, I sank down to this pain, As greedy famine doth constrain the hawk Piecemeal to rend and tear the yielding prey: So far'd it with me in that heavy stound.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various
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