Sc. Also 8 sten. [f. STEND v.2] A leap, spring or bound. Also fig.

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c. 1425.  Wyntoun, Orig. Cron., IV. iii. 236. Quhar stend for stend the coursere maid.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, X. x. 72. [The horses] brak away with the cart to the schor, With stendis feyll.

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15[?].  Christ’s Kirk, 46, in Bannatyne MS., 284. Than Stevin come stoppand in with stendis, No rynk mycht him arreist.

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a. 1728.  Ramsay, Answ. to Somerville, 82. While Sauls stride Warlds at ilka Stend.

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1788.  Burns, ‘O death! thou tyrant,’ iv. Ye burnies … foaming, strang, wi’ hasty stens Frae lin to lin. Ibid. (1790), Tam Glen, 22. My heart to my mou’ gied a sten.

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1816.  Sir A. Boswell, Sheldon Haughs, Poet. Wks. (1871), 167. Forward, ye Crawfords wi’ a stend.

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1893.  Stevenson, Catriona, xv. There gaed a cauld stend o’ fear into Tam’s heart.

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