a-ˈswound, advb. phr. arch.
Also 6–7 asound.
[Corruption of a-swown, the earlier form of a-swoon: see swoon and swound. Apparently not connected with the earlier aswounde from aswind.]
In a swoon.
| 1634 Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 466 He was in hazard of falling a-sound. |