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stound

 (stound)
n. Archaic
A short time; a while.

[Middle English, from Old English stund; see stā- in Indo-European roots.]
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stound

(staʊnd)
n
1. a short while; instant
2. a pang or pain
[Old English stund; related to Old High German stunta period of time, hour]
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stound

(staʊnd, stund)

n.
Archaic. a short time; short while.
[before 1000; Middle English sto(u)nd, Old English stund space of time]
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(17) David Armitage also argues that Shakespeare makes use of the same line in Ovid: stupuit gemina nece coniugis Orpheus, or "The double dying of his wife set Orphye in a stound" (Golding's translation).
Nor wonted was with walles to rampyre round, Their open cityes set in any stound. To each man passage free lay open than: Nothing there private was to any man.
(23) When the Hermit realizes that the Beast's victims are "past helpe of surgery," Spenser registers the nature of the affliction with an insistent vocabulary of inwardness: "He found that they [the wounds] had festred priuily, / And ranckling inward with vnruly stounds, / The inner parts now gan to putrify" (5.2-4).
In their only interview after Porter's sentencing yesterday, Kian's family also said they were a stounded to learn he was appealing against his guilty verdict.