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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Stoundnoun
Etymology: from the verb.
Begin and end the bitter baleful stound,
If less than that I fear. Fair. Queen.The fox his copesmate found,
To whom complaining his unhappy stound,
He with him far’d some better chance to find. Hubberd.Thus we stood as in a stound,
And wet with tears, like dew, the ground. John Gay.To Stoundverb
Etymology: stunde, I grieved, Islandick.
Wikipedia
stound
An hour (symbol: h; also abbreviated hr) is a unit of time conventionally reckoned as 1⁄24 of a day and scientifically reckoned between 3,599 and 3,601 seconds, depending on the speed of Earth's rotation. There are 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day. The hour was initially established in the ancient Near East as a variable measure of 1⁄12 of the night or daytime. Such seasonal, temporal, or unequal hours varied by season and latitude. Equal or equinoctial hours were taken as 1⁄24 of the day as measured from noon to noon; the minor seasonal variations of this unit were eventually smoothed by making it 1⁄24 of the mean solar day. Since this unit was not constant due to long term variations in the Earth's rotation, the hour was finally separated from the Earth's rotation and defined in terms of the atomic or physical second. In the modern metric system, hours are an accepted unit of time defined as 3,600 atomic seconds. However, on rare occasions an hour may incorporate a positive or negative leap second, making it last 3,599 or 3,601 seconds, in order to keep it within 0.9 seconds of UT1, which is based on measurements of the mean solar day.
Webster Dictionary
Stoundverb
to be in pain or sorrow
Stoundverb
stunned
Stoundnoun
a sudden, severe pain or grief; peril; alarm
Stoundnoun
astonishment; amazement
Stoundnoun
hour; time; season
Stoundnoun
a brief space of time; a moment
Stoundnoun
a vessel for holding small beer
Etymology: [See Stound, v. i.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Stound
stownd, n. (Spens.) a stunning influence, a blow, amazement: a shooting pain: a noise: sorrow, grief, mishap: effort.—v.t. to stun, astound. [A contr. of astound.]
Stound
stownd, n. (Spens.) a moment of time: time, season, hour. [A.S. stund.]
Stound
stownd (Spens.). Same as Stunned.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of stound in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of stound in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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