stounding

Verb (1)

stound (third-person singular simple present stounds, present participle stounding, simple past and past participle stounded)

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 […]1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, act IV, scene II, verses 93-95
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."1823, Edward Moor, Suffolk words and phrases: or, An attempt to collect the lingual localisms of that county

Verb (2)

stound (third-person singular simple present stounds, present participle stounding, simple past and past participle stounded)

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

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