stound

noun

1. (dialectal, obsolete)An hour.

   “What booth wilt thou have? our king reply'd / Now tell me in this stound”

2. (obsolete)A tide, season.
3. (archaic, dialectal)A time, length of time, hour, while.

   “He lay and slept, and swet a stound, / And became whole and sound.”

4. (archaic, dialectal)A brief span of time, moment, instant.

   “Listen to me a little stound.”

   “And in that same stound / All suddenly she swapt adown to ground.”

5. A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
6. (dialectal)A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.

   “No wonder that they cried unto the Lord, and felt a stound of despair shake their courage”

   “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 stroke or blow (from an object or weapon); (by extension) a lashing; scourging

   “How many pipes, as many sounds Do still impart To your Sonne's hart / As many deadly wounds : How many strokes, as many stounds, Each stroke a dart, Each stound a smart, Poore captive me confounds.”

   “A colt is made of three stounds, I think; it is lighter, much, than the cat. The punishment with the colt is always given without stripping, over the clothes.”

8. A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.

   “Several stounds of pain in the cleft between great and second toe (anterior tibial nerve). I forget which side, but I think it was the right. Slight pains in left temple, > pressure. Pain in upper part of right eyeball.”

   “[…] and run away with him, almost whether he will or not, in a stound of unbearable love!”

9. Astonishment; amazement.

   “Lightly he started up out of that stound.”

   “we stood as in a stound, / And wet with tears, like dew, the ground”

10. (UK, dialectal)A stand; a stop.
11. A receptacle for holding small beer.

    “Will Ardnamurchan never end? We're four stounds in a metal box [...]”

verb

1. (dialectal, intransitive, obsolete)To hurt, pain, smart.

   “Your wrath, weak boy ? Tremble at mine unless Retraction follow close upon the heels Of that late stounding insult […]”

2. (dialectal, intransitive, obsolete)To be in pain or sorrow, mourn.
3. (dialectal, intransitive, obsolete)To long or pine after, desire.

   “Recently weaned children "stound after the breast."”

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