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▪ I. stend, n.1 dial.
In 7 stan.
[f. stend v.1]
A stick used by butchers to hold open a carcase.
1481Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 97 Slaughterhous..j fleshaxe, j dresyng-knyfe, iij capistra, v stendez. 1688Holme Armoury iii. 313/1 Butchers Instruments..A Stan. 1893Northumbld. Gloss., Stend.
▪ II. stend, n.2 Sc.|stɛnd|
Also 8 sten.
[f. stend v.2]
A leap, spring or bound. Also fig.
c1425Wyntoun Orig. Cron. iv. iii. 236 Quhar stend for stend the coursere maid. 1513Douglas æneis x. x. 72 [The horses] brak away with the cart to the schor, With stendis feyll. 15..Christ's Kirk 46 in Bannatyne MS. 284 Than Stevin come stoppand in with stendis, No rynk mycht him arreist. a1728Ramsay Answ. to Somerville 82 While Sauls stride Warlds at ilka Stend. 1788Burns ‘O death! thou tyrant’ iv, Ye burnies..foaming, strang, wi' hasty stens Frae lin to lin. 1790― Tam Glen 22 My heart to my mou' gied a sten. 1816Sir A. Boswell Skeldon Haughs Poet. Wks. (1871) 167 Forward, ye Crawfords wi' a stend. 1893Stevenson Catriona xv, There gaed a cauld stend o' fear into Tam's heart.
▪ III. † stend, v.1 Obs.
[aphetic form of extend v.]
1. trans. To assess: = extend v. 10.
1402Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 80 Thus prelatis and persouns aftir her state, ben stended to paien what that nede askith.
2. To erect (a tent). = stent v.1 1.
1594Batt. Balrinness in Scot. Poems 16th C. II. 351 Besyd that castell, on a croft They stended pallionis ther.
▪ IV. stend, v.2 Sc.|stɛnd|
Also 8 sten (9 stenn).
[Of obscure origin; perh. identical with prec.]
intr. To leap, bound, spring up. Of an animal: To rear, be restive.
1560Rolland Seven Sages 296 Incontinent thay stendit on thair steidis. 1567Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 109 Quhat gart ȝow montanis lyke rammis stert and stend? a1724Ramsay's Tea-t. Misc. (1729) 16 The Lover he stended up in haste And gript her hard about the Waste. 1786Burns To Auld Mare xiv, Thou never lap, an' sten't, an' breastet. 1804R. Couper Poetry I. 112 Athort the field, wi' wildest pranks, Th' unwieldly oussen stenn. 1824Scott Redgauntlet let. xi, The nag begin to spring, and flee, and stend, that my gudesire could hardly keep the saddle. 1890Service Thir Notandums xix. 124, I was like to reist and to sten' at the doctor's orders.
transf. and fig.1721Ramsay Concl. 34 My Saul to higher Pitch cou'd sten. 1893Stevenson Catriona xv, The lassies were bits o' young things, wi' the reid life dinnling and stending in their members. |