1. A sudden, severe pain or grief; peril; alarm. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. Astonishment; amazement. [Obs.] Spenser. Gay.
Stound
(Stound), n. [AS. stund; akin to D. stond, G. stunde, Icel. stund.]
1. Hour; time; season. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. A brief space of time; a moment. [Obs.] Chaucer.
In a stound,
suddenly. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Stound
(Stound), n. [Cf. Stand.] A vessel for holding small beer. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Stoup
(Stoup) n. [See Stoop a vessel.]
1. A flagon; a vessel or measure for liquids. [Scot.] Jamieson.
2. (Eccl.) A basin at the entrance of Roman Catholic churches for containing the holy water with which
those who enter, dipping their fingers in it, cross themselves; — called also holy-water stoup.
Stour
(Stour) n. [OF. estour, estor, tumult, combat, of Teutonic origin. See Storm.] A battle or tumult; encounter; combat; disturbance; passion.
[Obs.] Fairfax. "That woeful stowre." Spenser.
She that helmed was in starke stours [fierce conflicts].
Chaucer. Stour
(Stour), a. [See Stoor, a.] Tall; strong; stern. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Stout
(Stout) a. [Compar. Stouter ; superl. Stoutest.] [D. stout bold (or OF. estout bold, proud, of
Teutonic origin); akin to AS. stolt, G. stolz, and perh. to E. stilt.]
1. Strong; lusty; vigorous; robust; sinewy; muscular; hence, firm; resolute; dauntless.
With hearts stern and stout.
Chaucer.
A stouter champion never handled sword.
Shak.
He lost the character of a bold, stout, magnanimous man.
Clarendon.
The lords all stand
To clear their cause, most resolutely stout.
Daniel. 2. Proud; haughty; arrogant; hard. [Archaic]
Your words have been stout against me.
Mal. iii. 13.
Commonly . . . they that be rich are lofty and stout.
Latimer. 3. Firm; tough; materially strong; enduring; as, a stout vessel, stick, string, or cloth.
4. Large; bulky; corpulent.
Syn. — Stout, Corpulent, Portly. Corpulent has reference simply to a superabundance or excess of
flesh. Portly implies a kind of stoutness or corpulence which gives a dignified or imposing appearance.
Stout, in our early writers was used chiefly or wholly in the sense of strong or bold; as, a stout champion; a
stout heart; a stout resistance, etc. At a later period it was used for thickset or bulky, and more recently,
especially in England, the idea has been carried still further, so that Taylor says in his Synonyms: "The