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Pine vs Stound - What's the difference?

pine | stound |

As verbs the difference between pine and stound

is that pine is while stound is (obsolete|or|dialectal|intransitive) to hurt, pain, smart or stound can be (obsolete) to stand still; stop.

As a noun stound is

(chronology|obsolete) an hour or stound can be a stand; a stop or stound can be a receptacle for holding small beer.

pine

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

  • (countable, uncountable) Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus .
  • * , chapter=1
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess), chapter=3 citation , passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine , while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.}}
  • (countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
  • (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
  • (archaic) A pineapple.
    • Synonyms
    * (tree of genus Pinus) pine tree * (wood) pinewood
    Derived terms
    * bunya pine * hoop pine * Huon pine * jack pine * Norfolk Island pine * pineal * pineapple * * * pinecone, pine cone * * pine needle * pine nut * * * pine tar * pine tree * * stone pine * white pine * Wollemi pine * yellow pine

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) . Cognate to (m). Entered Germanic with Christianity; cognate to (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A painful longing.

    • Verb

    (pin)
  • To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress; to droop.
  • * Tickell
    • The roses wither and the lilies pine .
  • To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
    • Laura was pining for Bill all the time he was gone.
  • * 1855 , John Sullivan Dwight (translator), “Oh Holy Night”, as printed in 1871, Adolphe-Charles Adam (music), “Cantique de Noël”, G. Schirmer (New York), originally by Placide Cappeau de Roquemaure, 1847
    • Long lay the world in sin and error pining / Till He appear’d and the soul felt its worth
  • * {{quote-book, year=1994
    • , author=(Walter Dean Myers) , title=The Glory Field , chapter= , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=_ePdzF_m3V4C&q=%22pined%22 citation , isbn=978054505575 , page=29 , passage=The way the story went was that the man's foot healed up all right but that he just pined away.}}
  • To grieve or mourn for.
    • (Milton)
  • To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.
  • * Bishop Hall
    • One is pined in prison, another tortured on the rack.

    References

    Anagrams

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    stound

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) stond, stounde, . Related to (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l) * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)

    Noun

    (s)
  • (chronology, obsolete) An hour.
  • * 1765 , Percy's Reliques, The King and the Tanner of Tamworth (original license: 1564):
    • What booth wilt thou have? our king reply'd / Now tell me in this stound
  • (obsolete) A tide, season.
    • (Chaucer)
  • (archaic, or, dialectal) A time, length of time, hour, while.
  • * 1801 , Walter Scott, The Talisman :
    • He lay and slept, and swet a stound , / And became whole and sound.
  • (archaic, or, dialectal) A brief span of time, moment, instant.
    • Listen to me a little stound .
    (Chaucer)
  • A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
  • (dialectal) A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.
  • * 1857 , Alexander Maclaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture :
    • No wonder that they cried unto the Lord, and felt a stound of despair shake their courage''
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
    • ere the point arriued, where it ought, / That seuen-fold shield, which he from Guyon brought / He cast betwene to ward the bitter stound [...].
  • A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.
  • * 1895 , Mansie Wauch, The Life of Mansie Wauch: tailor in Dalkeith :
    • [...] and run away with him, almost whether he will or not, in a stound of unbearable love!
  • astonishment; amazement
    • (Spenser)
    (Gay)
    Derived terms
    * ill stound * in a stound * stoundmeal * umbestound * umstound * upon a stound

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete, or, dialectal, intransitive) To hurt, pain, smart.
  • * 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act IV, Scene II, verses 93-95
    • Your wrath, weak boy ? Tremble at mine unless
    Retraction follow close upon the heels
    Of that late stounding insult […]
  • (obsolete, or, dialectal, intransitive) To be in pain or sorrow, mourn.
  • (obsolete, or, dialectal, intransitive) To long or pine after, desire.
  • * 1823 , Edward Moor, Suffolk words and phrases: or, An attempt to collect the lingual localisms of that county :
    • Recently weaned children "stound after the breast."

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To stand still; stop.
  • To stop to listen; pause.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A stand; a stop.

    • Etymology 3

    (etyl) stound, stonde, stoonde, ston, from (etyl) . Compare stand .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A receptacle for holding small beer.

    • Anagrams

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