STERN, STARN, _sb._ star. C.S., 48; Dunbar, G.T. 1; Lindsay, 239, 492. O.N. _stjarna_, Dan. _stjerne_, star, Norse _stjerna_. STERT, _vb._ to start, rush. Poet. R., 109, 8. O.N. _sterta_. For discussion of this word see Skeat. STOOP, _sb._ See _roop_. STORKYN, _vb._ to become rigid, stiffen. Dunbar, 248, 48. Norse _storkna_, coagulate, become rigid. See Wall under _storken_. STOT, _sb._ a young bull, bullock. Montg., C. and S., 1099; A.P.B. 1, 306; Burns, 231, 129, 4. Stratmann derives M.E. _stot_, "buculus," from Sw. _stut_; and _stot_, "caballus," from O.E. _stotte_. O.N. _stútr_ is rather the source of the former. Norse _stut_, Dan. _stud_. STOUR, _sb._ a pole. Douglas, III, 248, 27. O.N. _staur_, a pole, a stake, Norse _staur_, Sw. _stör_, Dan. and Dano-Norse _stör_. See the quotation under _pocknet_. STOWIT, _pt. p._ cutoff, cropped. Douglas, III, 42, 3. O.N. _stúfa_, a stump, _stýfa_, to cut off, Dan. _stuve_, Sw. _stuf_, a piece left after the rest has been cut away, _styva_, to crop, O. Sw., Sw. dial. _styva_, _stuva_, id. An O.E. _styfician_, to root up, occurs once (Leechdoms). See B-T. STOWP, _sb._ a pitcher, a beaker. Dunbar, 161, 26. O.N. _staup_, a beaker, a cup, Norse _staup_, id., Dan. _stöb_, O.E. _stēap_, O.H.G. _stouf_. STRAY, STRAE, STRA, _sb._ straw. O.N. _strá_, Dan., Norse _straa_, Sw. _strå _, Cu. _strea_. STROUP, (strūp), _sb._ the spout of a kettle or pump. Burns, 602; Jamieson. O.N. _strjúpi_, the spurting trunk, Norse _strupe_ and _striupe_, the throat, gullet, Dan. _strube_, id., M.E. _strūpe_, the throat. STUDIE, _sb._ anvil. Dunbar, 141, 52. The word rhymes with _smidy_. See _styddy_. STYDDY, STUDDIE, STUTHY, _sb._ anvil. Douglas, III, 926, 9; III, 180, 26; Dunbar 141, 52. See also Burns, 502. O.N. _steði_, a stithy, an anvil. Norse _sted_. Sw. _städ_. Exhibits change of ð to _d_ which is a Sco. characteristic, but does not often take place in Norse words. See, too, Cu. _stiddy, steady_. SUMPH, _sb._ a blunt fellow. Burns, 98, 1. Norse _sump_, a bungler, a simpleton, _sumpa_, vb. to entangle, put into disorder, _sump_, a disordered mass. Cu. _sumph_. M.L.G. _sump_, and Dan. _sump_ do not seem to be quite the same. SWARF, _vb._ originally to turn, then to overturn, fall over, fall. Burns, 211, 87, 4. O.N. _svarfa_, to turn aside, to be turned upside down, Sw. _swarfve_, Norse _svarva_, turn, swing about, Dan. _svarve_ or _svarre_. Eng. _swerve_ does not quite correspond. O.E. _sweorfan_ meant "to file, polish," O.S. _swerban_, to wipe off, polish, O.F. _swerva_, to creep. SWAGE, SWEY, _vb._ sway, waver, also turn, make turn. Sat. P., 5, 8; Douglas, II, 104, 12. O.N. _svæigja_, to bend, to sway, Dan. _sveie_, Sw. dial. _sväiga_, Norse _sveigja_.