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† stouth Sc. and north. Obs.
Forms: 4 stulth, stulþ, 5 stouth, stoutht, stuth, 6 stouith, 6, 9 stowth.
[Northern ME. stulþ, a. ON. stulþ-r (Icel. stulð-r, stuld-r), f. OTeut. *stul- ablaut-var. of *stel-: see steal v.]
1. Theft. Often coupled with reif: cf. stouthreif.
a1300Cursor M. 28461 Stulth o mete and drink did i. 1429in Cal. Doc. rel. Scot. (1888) 405 Gif..he knew never of the stoutht of the hale gude no[r] of that pert that is fundin with him. 1456Sir G. Hay Gov. Princes Wks. (S.T.S.) II. 88 Unlautee engenderis outhir ref, stouth, pillery or rubbery. 1497Reg. Privy Seal Scot. I. 12/1 For the reif and stuth of the gudis and insicht being in the sammyn. 1530Lyndesay Test. Papyngo 529 Quhat stouith, quhat raif, quhat murther, & myschance! 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) III. 101 With reif and stouth, spulȝe and oppressioun. 1589–90Reg. Privy Council Scot. IV. 453 Manifest reiffis and stouthis committit upoun his Hienes peceable and gude subjectis. 1610Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1848) II. 304 The frequent pykrie and stouthis in the cuntrie. 1652in Cromwellian Union (S.H.S. 1902) 61 The vnsufferable robberies and stouthis daylie committit on both sydes of the border. 1701in W. R. Mackintosh Cur. Incid. Rec. Kirkwall (1892) 110 The crymes of thift, reiff, stouth, and ressate of thift are punishable by death. 1791J. Learmont Poems 46 (E.D.D.) Great geer by stouth and rief, He's filcht frae mony Indian chief.
2. Stealth, clandestine transaction. (Jam.)
1513Douglas æneis xii. Prol. 212 Sum rownys to hys fallow, thame betwene, Hys mery stouth and pastans lait ȝistrene. |