stoundn.1
/staʊnd//stuːnd/ 1. † c. In adverbial phrases with prepositions, e.g. for, in, on a (little) stound, in many stounds, in that stound. by stounds: at intervals, from time to time, by turns. umbe stound: see umstound adv. Obsolete.† d. often-stounds, oft-stounds: often. [Compare often-sithes adv. at often adv. and adj. Compounds 1, oftenwhiles adv. at often adv. and adj. Compounds 1, oftentimes adv.] that stounds [? adverbial genitive] : at that moment. Obsolete.† e. ? An hour. Obsolete.† f. The time for doing something; one's ‘hour’ or opportunity. Obsolete.
a. A time, while; a short time, moment. Obsolete exc. dialect.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [noun] > a short or moderate space of time
weekeOE
littleOE
roomOE
stoundOE
startc1300
houra1350
furlong wayc1384
piecea1400
weea1400
speed whilec1400
hanlawhilea1500
snack1513
spirt?1550
snatch1563
fit1583
spurta1591
shortness1598
span1599
bit1653
thinking time1668
thinking-while1668
onwardling1674
way-bit1674
whilie1819
fillip1880
OE Andreas (1932) 1210 Nis seo stund latu þæt þe wælreowe witum belecgaþ, cealdan clommum.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 143 Ansechnesse of an stunde.
a1275 Prov. Ælfred 312 So his mani wimman..Scene under scete, and þoh hie is scondes ful in an stondes wile.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 24496 Quen i him had in armes fald,..þan bigan mi gle to gru,..And neud me mi stondes [Gött. stundis].
a1300 Fragm. Pop. Sci. (Wright) 13 That is evene above thin heved, aboute the nones stounde.
14.. Erthe upon Erthe 34/75 God lytyd in erth, blyssed be that stounde!
c1440 Alphabet of Tales 412 Evur he contynewid in syngyng, prayers-saying, and wurshippyng our Lady vnto þe stounde of dead.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Sept. 56 Hobbin, ah hobbin, I curse the stounde, That euer I cast to haue lorne this grounde.
1602 F. Davison Poet. Rapsody (1611) 39 Wo worth the stund wherein I tooke delight To frame the shifting of my nimble feete.
1604 B. Jonson Particular Entertainm. at Althrope 38 in His Pt. Royall Entertainem. Now they Print it on the Ground With their feete in figures round, Markes that will be euer found, To remember this glad stound.
c1616 R. C. Certaine Poems in Times' Whistle (1871) 129 Soe death is heer & yonder in one stound.
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 25 Scrimply there pass't a stound o' time.
1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms Stound, a short period of time.
b. As adverbial accusative.
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a1000 Boeth. Metr. xxv. 68 Ðæt is wyrse get, þæt he winnan nyle Wið ðæm anwalde ænige stunde.
a1123 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 1106 On þære forman længten wucan..ætywyde an ungewunelic steorra, & lange stunde þæræfter wæs ælce æfen gesewen.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6576 Þatt sume off ure little flocc..Hemm wendenn oþerr stund fra crist.
c1200 Moral Ode (Trin. Coll. MS.) 149 Hadde he fonded sume stunde he wolde seggen oðer.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1557 & þus ane stonde [c1300 Otho stunde] hit stod æ ðon ilka.
a1300 X Commandm. 22 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 16 Alas wrecchis whi do we so hit mai noȝt hold vre lif a stunde.
a1300 Cursor Mundi l. 14556 In effraim dueld he a stunde, And þeþen-ward son can he funde.
13.. Bonaventura's Medit. 878 Fro wepyng she ne myȝt stynte no stounde.
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter li. 5 Þof he lat þe lif a stunt in welth.
c1400 Assump. Virg. (Add. MS.) 727 And euer þei cryede many a stounde, ‘Alas’! [etc.].
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 7012 Þidir he went, and bade a stont.
1519 W. Horman Vulgaria v. f. 56 He was so abasshed, that he was almoste mad, and stoode styffe a stownde.
1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes (new ed.) f. 106v Elde..Will turne eche blysse into a blast, Which lasteth but a stounde.
1567 G. Turberville Epitaphes, Epigrams f. 91 Vlysses wiues renowne Unsitting is for hir whose loue endureth but a stowne.
1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne iv. 162 Like him that lookes ech stond with bared necke, When cruell axe shall his liues warrant checke.
1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xix. xxviii. 342 His legges could beare him but a little stound.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. ii. 51 So that this Vapour, neuer resting stound, Stands neuer still, but makes his motion round.
1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia (at cited word) He stayed a long stound.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [adverb] > sometimes or occasionally
whiloma900
whilea1000
stoundmealc1000
stundumOE
otherwhileOE
umquhile1154
with and withc1175
by stoundsa1225
otherwhilesc1225
umbestound?c1225
umbewhilec1230
then and thenc1275
sometime…sometime1297
umstounda1300
by while13..
over while13..
sometime1340
umbe throwea1350
at timesa1382
now and again (also anon, eft, now)a1393
umbwhile1393
eftsoona1398
sometimea1400
by sithesc1400
umbestoundsc1400
from time to (formerly unto) time1423
now and (also or) then1445
ever now and nowa1470
when and whenc1470
occasionallya1475
in timesa1500
whiles?a1500
whilomsa1500
sometimes1526
somewhiles1528
at whiles1540
ever now and then1542
a-whiles1546
somewhiles…, somewhiles1547
at sometimes1548
now and thenc1550
ever and anon1558
by occasions1562
on (also upon) occasion1562
as soon…as soon1581
every now and then (also again)1642
by a time1721
once and a while1765
ever and again1788
periodically1825
in spots1851
a1225 Juliana 7 Ant efter lutle stounde wið ute long steuene.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 231 A mon þe hefde al þe world onwalde. & hefde for his cwedschipe for loren al on astunde.
a1250 Prov. Ælfred 395 Ac al he schal for-leten on a litel stunde.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 4396 Hærde bi-ðrungen. i wel feole stunden [c1300 Otho stunde].
c1350 St. Christina 179 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 95 He was so stonayd in þat stunt He strake him self fast in þe frunt.
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1868) iv. met. vi. 111 The moyste thinges stryuynge with the drye thinges yeuen place by stowndes.
a1400 Pistill of Susan 167 Alle hire seruauns þei shont And stelen a-wey in a stont.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1567 Bot ȝet þe styffest to start bi stoundeȝ he made.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ii. x. 80 I within ane litle stound, The clud of dirknes from thi sicht sall cleir.
a1529 J. Skelton Phyllyp Sparowe (?1545) sig. A.iiv Within that stounde..in a sounde I fell downe to the grounde.
1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle Prol. sig. Aii He quyetly perswaded with her in that stound Dame Chat her deare gossyp this needle had found.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vi. 203 Abiding for a stownd Pale, cold, and sence-les, in a deadly sownd.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > frequency > [adverb]
unseldea950
oftOE
thickOE
ylomeOE
oftsithec1175
oftsithesc1175
lomec1200
oftlya1225
oft-stounds1303
continuallyc1305
oftena1325
rifely1357
oft-timesc1384
oft-timec1387
oftentimesa1393
oftentimec1395
fele-sitha1400
lightlya1400
oftentide?a1400
rifea1400
seresitha1400
many a foldc1400
often sithec1405
hauntinglyc1440
by many a foldc1450
fele-syss1489
frequently1531
feltymesc1540
oftens1567
oftenly1574
frequent1614
repeatedlya1647
(as) often as not1723
more often (or oftener) than not1723
not uncommonly1747
not infrequently1779
(at) every whip-stitch1824
oftenwhilesa1850
at short intervals1859
the world > time > relative time > immediacy > [adverb]
soonc825
ratheeOE
rathelyeOE
rekeneOE
rekenlyOE
thereright971
anonOE
forth ona1000
coflyc1000
ferlyc1000
radlyOE
swiftlyc1000
unyoreOE
yareOE
at the forme (also first) wordOE
nowOE
shortlya1050
rightOE
here-rightlOE
right anonlOE
anonc1175
forthrightc1175
forthwithalc1175
skeetc1175
swithc1175
with and withc1175
anon-rightc1225
anon-rights?c1225
belivec1225
lightly?c1225
quickly?c1225
tidelyc1225
fastlyc1275
hastilyc1275
i-radlichec1275
as soon asc1290
aright1297
bedenea1300
in little wevea1300
withoute(n dwella1300
alrightc1300
as fast (as)c1300
at firstc1300
in placec1300
in the placec1300
mididonec1300
outrightc1300
prestc1300
streck13..
titec1300
without delayc1300
that stounds1303
rada1325
readya1325
apacec1325
albedenec1330
as (also also) titec1330
as blivec1330
as line rightc1330
as straight as linec1330
in anec1330
in presentc1330
newlyc1330
suddenlyc1330
titelyc1330
yernec1330
as soon1340
prestly1340
streckly1340
swithly?1370
evenlya1375
redelya1375
redlya1375
rifelya1375
yeplya1375
at one blastc1380
fresha1382
ripelyc1384
presentc1385
presently1385
without arrestc1385
readilyc1390
in the twinkling of a looka1393
derflya1400
forwhya1400
skeetlya1400
straighta1400
swifta1400
maintenantc1400
out of handc1400
wightc1400
at a startc1405
immediately1420
incontinent1425
there and then1428
onenec1429
forwithc1430
downright?a1439
agatec1440
at a tricec1440
right forth1440
withouten wonec1440
whipc1460
forthwith1461
undelayed1470
incessantly1472
at a momentc1475
right nowc1475
synec1475
incontinently1484
promptly1490
in the nonce?a1500
uncontinent1506
on (upon, in) the instant1509
in short1513
at a clap1519
by and by1526
straightway1526
at a twitch1528
at the first chop1528
maintenantly1528
on a tricea1529
with a tricec1530
at once1531
belively1532
straightwaysa1533
short days1533
undelayedly1534
fro hand1535
indelayedly1535
straight forth1536
betimesc1540
livelyc1540
upononc1540
suddenly1544
at one (or a) dash?1550
at (the) first dash?1550
instantly1552
forth of hand1564
upon the nines1568
on the nail1569
at (also in, with) a thoughtc1572
indilately1572
summarily1578
at one (a) chop1581
amain1587
straightwise1588
extempore1593
presto1598
upon the place1600
directly1604
instant1604
just now1606
with a siserary1607
promiscuously1609
at (in) one (an) instant1611
on (also upon) the momenta1616
at (formerly also on or upon) sight1617
hand to fist1634
fastisha1650
nextly1657
to rights1663
straightaway1663
slap1672
at first bolt1676
point-blank1679
in point1680
offhand1686
instanter1688
sonica1688
flush1701
like a thought1720
in a crack1725
momentary1725
bumbye1727
clacka1734
plumba1734
right away1734
momentarily1739
momentaneously1753
in a snap1768
right off1771
straight an end1778
abruptedly1784
in a whistle1784
slap-bang1785
bang?1795
right off the reel1798
in a whiff1800
in a flash1801
like a shot1809
momently1812
in a brace or couple of shakes1816
in a gird1825
(all) in a rush1829
in (also at, on) short (also quick) order1830
straightly1830
toot sweetc1830
in two twos1838
rectly1843
quick-stick1844
short metre1848
right1849
at the drop of a (occasionally the) hat1854
off the hooks1860
quicksticks1860
straight off1873
bang off1886
away1887
in quick sticks (also in a quick stick)1890
ek dum1895
tout de suite1895
bung1899
one time1899
prompt1910
yesterday1911
in two ups1934
presto changeo1946
now-now1966
presto change1987
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 3083 Ȝyf þou delyte þe oftyn stoundes, yn horsys, haukys, or yn houndes.
a1400 Octouian 893 Men blamede the bochere oft stoundys For hys sone.
a1400 King & Hermit 56 He blew thrys, vncoupuld hundes; They reysed þe dere vp þat stondes.
ΚΠ
c1325 Lai le Freine 207 To-day, right in the morning, Sone after the first stounde, A litel maiden-childe ich founde.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [noun] > sufficient time or leisure
timeOE
stounda1225
while?c1225
spacec1300
leisure1553
a1225 Leg. Kath. 1263 Nu is ower stunde!
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 10873 In þe kinges chaumbre..was A clerc ifounde..He made him as bi wit, so þat it was ifounde, Þat it was bi speke to sle þe king, wan he sei stounde.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 11332 Al þe nobleye couthe y nought telle, Ne y naue no stounde þer-on to dwelle.
2. † a. Contextually: A hard time, a time of trial or pain. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > time of
stoundOE
SeptuagesimaOE
winterc1425
plague time1549
plague year1549
stour1579
Winter of the Rals1846
locust years1948
OE Riddle 93 (1936) 20 No ic þa stunde bemearn, ne for wunde weop.
c1250 Owl & Night. 706 Þe Nihtegale..hedde onswere god ifunde Among alle hire harde stunde.
c1374 G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite 238 Alas! the harde stounde.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17152 I..sufferd her þis herd stondes, And ded on þis rode tre.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. viii. sig. H Such percing griefe her stubborne hart did wound, That she could not endure that dolefull stound.
b. Hence, a sharp pain, a pang; a fierce attack, a shock. Chiefly northern. Also (Scottish), a thrill (of delight).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > sudden or vigorous
swengOE
stounda1400
pounce1806
raid1812
razzia1852
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > sudden pain
stitchc1000
showera1300
shutea1300
gridea1400
gripa1400
shota1400
stounda1400
lancing1470
pang1482
twitch?1510
shooting1528
storm1540
stitching1561
stub1587
twinge1608
gird1614
twang1721
tang1724
shoot1756
darting1758
writhe1789
catch1830
lightning pain1860
twitcher1877
rash1900
the mind > emotion > excitement > pleasurable excitement > [noun] > thrill of
thrilla1680
dirl1787
stound1827
kick1899
jolly1905
drive1921
bang1931
belt1932
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > [noun] > thrill of delight
stound1827
jolly1905
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 24541 In sterin stanging was i stadd, Sa war mi stundes store.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1540 Þe stronge strok of þe stonde strayned his ioyntes.
c1400 Rom. Rose 4472 What avayleth hir good wille, Whan she ne may staunche my stounde ille?
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 140 He rouschit doun off blud all rede, As he that stound feld off dede.
a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Passioun in Poems (1998) I. 37 Than straik at me with mony ane stound.
1567 Gude & Godlie Ball. 99 Lyke deidly dartis thow geuis stang & stound.
1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus i. f. 12v As he that said to his hart straik ane stound.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. May 257 Iesus..keepe your corpse from the carefull stounds, That in my carrion carcas abounds.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. vi. sig. Dd5v Their wounds..Had festred priuily, And ranckling inward with vnruly stounds, The inner parts now gan to putrify. View more context for this quotation
1659 H. More Immortality of Soul iii. xiv. 477 The stounds and agonies of Death.
1788 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum II. 106 But every shot and every knock, My heart it gae a stoun.
1790 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum III. 304 And aye the stound, the deadly wound, Cam frae her een sae bonie blue.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Stound, the sensation or first impression of sudden pain, arising from a knock or blow.
1827 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxxiii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 898 My heart has gien a sudden stoun' o' uncommunicable delicht.
1834 T. Pringle Afr. Sketches 17 Oft as he feels gaunt hunger's stound.
1878 T. Martin tr. Heine Poems 18 Then I felt a stound through all my frame.
c. Roar, violent noise.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > [noun]
peal1535
thud1535
bouncing1598
ran-tan1607
sulphur?1611
bursta1616
stound1627
randana1661
break1751
flare1815
slam-banging1823
bang1854
spang1883
whoomph1891
ka-boom1965
zap1984
1627 M. Drayton Nimphidia in Battaile Agincourt 128 By the Thunders dreadfull stound.
a1657 W. Burton Comm. Antoninus his Itinerary (1658) 150 After this storm and stound..it flourished again.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. v. iv. 244 One can fancy with what dolorous stound the noon-tide cannon..went off there.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun]
stallc1000
logh11..
settlea1340
placea1375
steada1387
sitea1398
assizec1400
position?a1425
estal1480
stound1557
planting1585
location1592
positure1600
posture1605
seat1607
situs1629
ubi1630
ubiety1645
locus1648
locality1656
topography1658
whereness1674
lie1697
spot1769
locus standi1809
possie1916
ubicity1922
1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. N.iiv What power haue you so great..To pluck, to draw, to rauish hartes, & stirre out of ther stownd?
1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Fviij Stande still in stounde, kepe whishte (I say) Whilste I doe proue you mad.
1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Evij Well might thou saye that freshe Tarent Were brought into this stounde?
1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Fj He hath forsoke Of manlines the stounde [L. locum virtutis deseruit].
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Siv/2 A Stound, statio, terminus.
1652 Liber Patris Sapientiæ in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum 204 For when the Larke ys weary above in hys stound, Anon he falleth right downe to the ground.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > stadium (ancient Greek or Roman unit)
furlongc900
stadiuma1398
stagec1480
stade?1537
stound1656
1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked liii. §524 A hundred twenty five Geometrical paces, make a stound or furlong.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
stoundn.2
/staʊnd//stuːnd/ Now dialect.
A state of stupefaction or amazement.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > [noun] > state of wonder > accompanied by stupefaction
excessa1387
astounedness1549
stound1567
astoniedness1580
stun1836
transfixture1886
mazement1901
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xiii. f. 159v [He] raysed soberly his eyliddes from the ground (On which he had a little whyle them pitched in a stound).
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. vi. sig. F2 Lightly he started vp out of that stound.
?1610 J. Fletcher Faithfull Shepheardesse ii. sig. D2 Whilst the sound, Beates against heauen, and driues into a stound [printed stround; corrected 1656] The amazed Shepherd.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 3 Apr. (1974) VIII. 144 This put us all into a stound.
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 120 We having warily held, the stirr'd body not to be at rest, or in a stound or pause at all, but alwayes to be either stirring or bearing.
1677 R. Gilpin Dæmonol. Sacra iii. xxi. 176 Though at first some good Men were over-awed to..recant,..yet..(after the stound and dazle of the Temptation was over) they recoiled so resolutely upon them, that [etc.].
1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week Prol. 23 Thus we stood as in a stound.
1767 W. J. Mickle Concubine ii. Introd. In musefull Stownd Syr Martyn rews His Youthhedes thoughtlesse Stage.
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 194 Flew frae ae pillar to the tither, Syn in a stound did drap.
1859 D. M. Mulock Life for a Life II. 184 I laugh now..to recollect what a stound it gave us both, this utterly improbable..tale.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
† stoundn.3
dialect. Obsolete.
(See quots.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > large for liquor > for beer or cider
beer-pot1546
black pot1582
beer-glass1594
beer-barrel1603
beer-bombard1652
stound1674
beer-vat1837
beer-bottle1839
stein1855
tunning cask1891
bulk barrel1905
seidel1922
schooner1934
stubby1957
1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 46 A Stound q. Stand; a wooden Vessel to put small Beer in. [So in many later Glossaries.]
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Stound, a Vessel of Earth or Wood that stands on end.
1721 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husb. II. 332 If the quantity of your choicest Cyder be too great for your Bottles, you may..make use of..Stounds of Flanders Earth.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
stoundv.1
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > absence of movement > [verb (intransitive)] > remain as opposed to go
bidec893
yleaveOE
leaveOE
wonc1000
abideOE
worthOE
beliveOE
atstutte-nc1220
stuttea1225
atstuntc1230
astinta1250
beleavea1325
lasta1325
stounda1325
stinta1340
joukc1374
restaya1382
to leave over1394
liec1400
byec1425
onbidec1430
keep1560
stay1575
delay1655
to wait on1773
stop1801
to sit on1815
to hang around1830
to stick around1878
to sit tight1897
remain1912
stay-down1948
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3211 Ðor he stunden for to sen Quilc pharaon wið hem sal ben.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1987 Ðor was in helle a sundri stede Wor ðe seli folc reste dede; Ðor he stunden til helpe cam.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 10902 When Arthur felde þat he was wounded, Noþyng he ne stinte ne stounded.
14.. Sir Beues (S.) 1283 On knee he him set, he nolde stound, And ȝaue vp his deth with his hold.
2. [stound n.1 2b] † a. transitive. To affect with a ‘stound’ or pang; to cause great pain to. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > affect with type of pain [verb (transitive)] > affect with sudden pain
stitchc1230
stoundc1500
twinge1647
c1500 W. Kennedy Passion of Christ 450 Thai hurt his [back] and all his body þai fret, Saris his senonis and stoundis all his wanis.
c1500 W. Kennedy Passion of Christ 552 On him to luk þair stomok sair it stoundis.
a1679 J. Brown Life of Faith (1824) I. vii. 137 Every ingredient that affecteth thee stounds his heart.
1792 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum IV. 351 And my heart it stounds wi' anguish Lest my wee thing be na mine.
b. intransitive. To be acutely painful; to smart, throb. Only Scottish and northern.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > suffer or cause type of pain [verb (intransitive)] > smart or sting
smartOE
bite1377
stound1513
urticate1843
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. x. 135 So tyll hys hart stoundis the prik of deith.
1636 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae (new ed.) 741 His wounds yet, which stounds yet, He got them than through thee.
1724 A. Ramsay Health 294 For the least noise stounds thro' his ears like death.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Stound, to ache, to smart, to be in pain.
1848 J. Hamilton Happy Home (1871) vi. 132 Writhing nerves and stounding bones.
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stoundv.2
/staʊnd//stuːnd/ Now dialect.† 2. intransitive. To be bewildered or at a loss.
1. transitive. To stun as with a blow; to stupefy, benumb; to stupefy with astonishment, bewilder.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > dullness of sense perception > dull (the senses) [verb (transitive)] > stun
asweveOE
stonyc1330
astone1340
astony1340
stouna1400
stounda1400
stuna1400
stoynec1450
dozen1487
astonish1530
benumb1530
daunt1581
dammisha1598
still1778
silence1785
to knock, lay (out), etc., cold1829
to lay out1891
out1896
wooden1904
to knock rotten1919
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > cause wonder, astonish [verb (transitive)] > stupefy
awhapec1300
stonyc1330
astony1340
astonec1374
mazec1390
stounda1400
stuna1400
to-stony?a1400
stounc1400
clumsec1440
overmusec1460
stonish1488
strike1533
dazzle1561
stoyne1563
stupefy1577
stupefact1583
obstupefy1611
astound1637
petrify1667
flabbergast1773
stagnatea1798
stama1800
swarf1813
boggle1835
razzle-dazzle1886
to knock sideways1890
stupend1900
gobsmack1987
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > anaesthetization, pain-killing, etc. > practise anaesthetization, pain-killing, etc. [verb (transitive)] > anaesthetize
stony1382
astonish1530
astone1543
stounda1617
etherize1847
letheonize1847
anaesthetize1848
apathize1848
chloroform1848
chloralize1878
chloroformize1880
to put under1889
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7558 Quat! wynsþou i am a hund, Wit þi stans me for to stund?
a1420 Aunters of Arthur (Douce) xlvii. 602 The knighte of corage was cruel and kene, And withe a stele bronde þat sturne oft stonded.
1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) iii. vii. 231/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I Mastiffes..take also their name of the word mase and theefe..bicause they often stound and put such persons to their shifts.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. i. xli. 24 That the king was stounded with a sudden blow [L. sopitum fuisse regem subito ictu] but the weapon did not go very deep into his body.
1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica xii. xci. 262 But him the Woorthy stounded with a blow.
a1617 P. Baynes Lectures 302 in Comm. First & Second Chapters Colossians (1634) The Chirurgion bindeth and stoundeth before cutting, that the patient may be lesse grieved.
1629 in Bibl. Regia II. 236 The fatal blow given your most loyal servant..hath so stounded our University as (like a body without a soul) she stirs not.
1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 218 They are slain every mother's son of them. Yet perhaps they are but stounded and may revive again.
1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 221 At the sight..of this River, the Pilgrims were much stounded . View more context for this quotation
1689 Dialogue Timothy & Titus 4 I'le protest you've stunded me.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Stound. 1. To stun. 2. To overcome with astonishment.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > be or become confused [verb (intransitive)] > be at a loss
not to know which way to turn (also turn oneself)c1400
stound1531
stick1534
confute1672
to be stuck for1861
not to know whether one is coming or going1899
1531 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 98 The seid Mayer and Burgeys many tymes stound and be in grett ambuyguyte to execute such old graunts.
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