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puhekieltä An hour 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
1987, Alastair Mackie, Ingaidherins: Selected Poems - Page 54:
- Will Ardnamurchan never end? We're four stounds in a metal box ...
puhekieltä A tide, season.
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puhekieltä A time time, length of time, hour, while.
1801, Walter Scott, The Talisman:
- He lay and slept, and swet a stound, / And became whole and sound.
puhekieltä A brief span of time, moment, instant.
Listen to me a little stound.
A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
puhekieltä 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 ....
A stroke or blow (from a object or weapon); puhekieltä a lashing; scourging
1807, Sir Egerton Brydges, Censura Literaria:
- 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.
1843, Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, Proceedings of the Court of Inquiry appointed to inquire into the intended mutiny on board the United States Brig of War Somers, on the high seas:
- 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.
A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.
1893, The Homoeopathic World:
- 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.
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!
astonishment Astonishment; amazement
puhekieltä To hurt, pain, smart.
1819, :w:John Keats|John Keats, Otho the Great, Act IV, Scene II, verses 93-95
- Your wrath, weak boy ? Tremble at mine unless
- Retraction follow close upon the heels
- Of that late stounding insult …
puhekieltä To be in pain or sorrow, mourn.
puhekieltä 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."
puhekieltä To stand still; stop.
puhekieltä To stop to listen; pause.
puhekieltä A stand; a stop.
A receptacle for holding small beer.