stounds

Noun

stound (plural stounds)

1. (dialectal, obsolete) An hour.
   • What booth wilt thou have? our king reply'd / Now tell me in this stound1765, Percy's Reliques, The King and the Tanner of Tamworth (original license: 1564)
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.1801, Walter Scott, The Talisman

   Synonyms:

   span, duration, interval, period, period of time, tide, time, time interval, time period, timespan

4. (archaic, dialectal) A brief span of time, moment, instant.
   • Listen to me a little stound.

   Synonyms:

   jiffy, second, bat of an eye, bit, blink of an eye, crack, eyeblink, flash, glimpse, half a mo

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 courage1857, Alexander Maclaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture

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