Obs. exc. Sc. [f. STOUR a. + -NESS.] The condition of being ‘stour’; † sturdiness; † roughness; largeness.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 9015. Kyng Seppidon … Bounet vnto batell … And to Neptilon anon,… As by stowrnes of strenght, streght on hym met. Ibid., 10345. And troiell … trayturly he slogh, Noght þurgh stowrenes of strokes, ne with strenght one; But [etc.].
1530. Palsgr., 277/1. Stournesse, estourdisseure.
1866. T. Edmondston, Shetl. & Orkney Gloss., Stourness, largeness, bigness, Shetland.
