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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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
"What boot wilt thou have?" our king replied; "Now tell me in this stound."
From A Bundle of Ballads by Henry Morley
Just after I was put to my apprenticeship, having made free choice of the tailoring trade, I had a terrible stound of calf-love.
From Amusing Prose Chap Books by Various
By firth and forest forth they wound, They graithit them full gay: God wot what they would do that stound, For it was their feast-day, They said, Of Peebles to the play!
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
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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