Now Sc. and north. Forms: 4 stoune, stowne (pa. pple. stouned, stund), 5 stounne, 7 stown, 6– stoun. [Aphetic a. OF. estoner: see ASTONE v. Cf. STUN v. and STOUND v.2]
† 1. trans. a. To stun, stupefy, as with a blow; to benumb. b. To stupefy with amazement, astound. Obs.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 12963. Hu bot lepe dun to þe grund, Þat þi bodi be noght stund.
13[?]. Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 242. Þer-fore to answare was arȝe mony aþel freke, & al stouned at his steuen, & ston-stil seten.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., C. 73. When þat steuen was stynt, þat stowned his mynde.
1591. Harington, Orl. Fur., xxxvi. liv. (1634), 302. But though the shield brake not, gramercy charme, Yet underneath the shield it stound his arme.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., V. xi. 29. So was he stound with stroke of her huge taile.
1613. T. Heywood, Brazen Age, II. ii. C 3. My beauty, that charms Gods, makes men amaz’d, And stownd with wonder.
1631. Henshaw, Horæ Succ., 389. The wicked … thinkes not of it till it come; and when it is come can think of nothing but that and is stown’d with the thought of it.
2. intr. To be stupefied or benumbed.
c. 1400. Anturs of Arth., ix. 109. It stottyde, it stounnede, it stode als a stane.
