Stound

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːnd
• IPA: /staÊŠnd/
• Rhymes: -aÊŠnd

From Middle English stond, stounde, stound ("hour, time, season, moment"), from Old English stund ("a period of time, while, hour, occasion"), from Proto-Germanic *stundō ("point in time, hour"), from Proto-Indo-European *stut- ("prop"), from Proto-Indo-European *stā-, *sth- ("to stand"). Cognate with Dutch stond ("hour, time, moment"), German Stunde ("hour"), Danish and Swedish stund ("time, while"). Compare Middle English stunden ("to linger, stay, remain for a while"), Icelandic stunda ("to frequent, pursue"). Related to stand.

Alternative forms

• stund
• stoind, stoond, stoon, stoun, stuind Scotland

Full definition of stound

Noun

1. (chronology, obsolete) An hour.
• 1765, Percy's Reliques, The King and the Tanner of Tamworth (original license: 1564):What booth wilt thou have? our king reply'd
  Now tell me in this stound
2. (obsolete) A tide, season.
3. (archaic or dialectal) A time, length of time, hour, while.
• 1801, Walter Scott, The Talisman:He lay and slept, and swet a stound,
  And became whole and sound.
4. (archaic or dialectal) A brief span of time, moment, instant.Listen to me a little stound.
5. A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
6. (dialectal) A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.
• 1857, Alexander Maclaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture:No wonder that they cried unto the Lord, and felt a stound of despair shake their courage''
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:ere the point arriued, where it ought,
  That seuen-fold shield, which he from Guyon brought
  He cast betwene to ward the bitter stound ....
7. A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.
• 1895, Mansie Wauch, The Life of Mansie Wauch: tailor in Dalkeith:... and run away with him, almost whether he will or not, in a stound of unbearable love!
8. astonishment; amazement

Derived terms

• ill stound
• in a stound
• stoundmeal
• umbestound
• umstound
• upon a stound

Verb

1. (obsolete or dialectal, intransitive) To hurt, pain, smart.
• 1819, , Otho the Great, Act IV, Scene II, verses 93-95Your wrath, weak boy ? Tremble at mine unlessRetraction follow close upon the heelsOf that late stounding insult …
2. (obsolete or dialectal, intransitive) To be in pain or sorrow, mourn.
3. (obsolete or dialectal, intransitive) To long or pine after, desire.
• 1823, Edward Moor, Suffolk words and phrases: or, An attempt to collect the lingual localisms of that county:Recently weaned children "stound after the breast."

From Middle English stunden ("to linger, stay, remain for a while"). Cognate with Icelandic stunda ("to frequent, pursue"). More at stand.

Verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To stand still; stop.
2. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To stop to listen; pause.

Noun

1. (UK dialectal) A stand; a stop.

Middle English stound, stonde, stoonde, ston, from Old English stond ("a stand"). Compare stand.

Noun

1. A receptacle for holding small beer.

Anagrams

• donuts
• stunod