Also 3 stunde. [f. STOUND sb.1]
† 1. [STOUND sb.1 1.] intr. To remain, stay. Obs.
Cf. obs. dial. ‘Stound, to stop, stand still, esp. in order to listen’ (Suffolk and Essex): see Eng. Dial. Dict.
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 1987. Ðor was in helle a sundri stede, wor ðe seli folc reste dede; ðor he stunden til helpe cam. Ibid., 3211. Ðor he stunden for to sen quilc pharaon wið hem sal ben.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, 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 sb.1 2 b.] † a. trans. To affect with a ‘stound’ or pang; to cause great pain to. Obs.
b. intr. To be acutely painful; to smart, throb. Only Sc. and north.
c. 1500. Kennedy, Passion of Christ, 450. Thai hurt his [back] and all his body þai fret, Saris his senonis and stoundis all his wanis. Ibid., 552. On him to luk þair stomok sair it stoundis.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, X. x. 135. So tyll hys hart stoundis the prik of deith.
a. 1585. Montgomerie, Cherrie & Slae, 741. His wounds ȝit, quhilk stounds ȝit, He gat them than throw thee.
1678. J. Brown, Life of Faith, I. vii. (1824), 137. Every ingredient that affecteth thee stounds his heart.
1724. Ramsay, Health, 294. For the least noise stounds thro’ his ears like death.
a. 1792. Burns, Bonie Wee Thing, 3. And my heart it stounds wi’ anguish, Lest my wee thing be na mine.
1825. Brockett, N. C. Gloss., Stound, to ache, to smart, to be in pain.
1848, 1910. [see STOUNDING ppl. a.1].
