▪ I. † ˈstounding, vbl. n.1 Obs.
[f. stound v.1 + -ing1.]
a. Lingering, delay. b. pl. Remains.
| ? a 1400 Morte Arth. 491 Wythowttyne more stownntynge they schippide theire horsez. 1650 Presbyt. Rec. Inverurie in J. Davidson Inverurie (1878) 306 The mistress was delyvered and thereafter the pains left her, except some stoundings of the grinding. |
▪ II. ˈstounding, vbl. n.2
[f. stound v.2 + -ing1.]
Benumbing.
| 1637 Rutherford Lett. (1836) I. 296 Christ's ‘Not yet,’ is a stounding of all the limbs and liths of the soul. |
▪ III. ˈstounding, ppl. a.1 north.
[f. stound v.1 + -ing1.]
Smarting, acutely painful.
| 1848 J. Hamilton Happy Home vi. (1871) 132 Writhing nerves and stounding bones. 1910 D. Cuthbertson in Poets of Ayrshire 280 Our hearts a stounin' pain aft feel. |
▪ IV. ˈstounding, ppl. a.2
[f. stound v.2 + -ing1.]
Stunning; astounding.
| 1608 Dekker Dead Term A 3, Many a stounding blow hath he taken on his head. 1674 N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 87 That stounding and surprizing Essex Writer. 1819 Keats Otho iv. ii. 95 Unless Retraction follow close upon the heels Of that late stounding insult. |