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
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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
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 Neil Munro
"What boot wilt thou have?" the tanner replied, "Now tell me in this stound."
From A Bundle of Ballads by Henry Morley
The routhie bield that gars the gear Is gane where glint the pawky een, And aye the stound is birkin lear Where sconnered yowies wheeped yestreen.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
O most noble of men in this time and stound, * Of whom none may boast he is equal-found!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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