for stone, so pronounced in the back parts of New England.
Captain Stone, I've been clean away amongst the Yankees, where they call your name Stunn.--Crockett, Tour, p. 145.
·noun The condition of being stunned. II. Stun ·vt To make senseless or dizzy by violence; to rende...
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