2. Verb. (third-person singular of stound). ¹
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Definition of Stounds
1. stound [v] - See also: stound
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stounds
Literary usage of Stounds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Universal Etymological English Dictionary: Containing an Additional ...by Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1737)
"J^* stounds, Sorrow», Dump«, Fia. if STOUR'MINST ER [of the Rim Ja* and a Min
ffer there] a Town ..."
2. Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms by Edward Moor (1823)
"The word has also a meaning of time—but is, I think, then generally stounds,
which see. ... Time—in this sense : "I was axt some stounds ago ..."
3. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"My heart was once t Who heals life's various stounds, On Birth o/Posth. Child.
... And my heart it stounds wi' anguish, Lest my wee thing be na mine. ..."
4. Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms by Edward Moor (1823)
"... stounds ago." J never heard the word, but I understand it is in use in high
Suffolk—that is to the northward of, and about, ..."
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