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. stutr 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. stoer, Dan. and Dano-Norse
    stoer.  See the quotation under pocknet.

STOWIT, pt. p. cutoff, cropped.  Douglas, III, 42, 3.  O.N. stufa,
    a stump, styfa, 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. stoeb, O.E.
    st[-e]ap, O.H.G. stouf.

STRAY, STRAE, STRA, sb. straw.  O.N. stra, Dan., Norse straa,
    Sw. stra , Cu. strea.

STROUP, (str[-u]p), sb. the spout of a kettle or pump.  Burns, 602;
    Jamieson.  O.N. strjupi, the spurting trunk, Norse strupe
    and striupe, the throat, gullet, Dan. strube, id., M.E.
    str[-u]pe, 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.
    steethi, a stithy, an anvil.  Norse sted.  Sw. staed. 
    Exhibits change of eth 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.