An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

STANDFORD, s. Perhaps, one of mean extraction.
Dunbar.

A. S. stand-an feoran, stare procul.

STANE, s. A stone, S., steen, S. B.
Chr. Kirk.

A. S. stan, Su. G. sten, Isl. stein, id.

Stane-cast, s. The distance to which a stone may be thrown, S.

Isl. steinkast, id.

Stane-chaker, Stone-checker, s.
1. The stone-chatter, S.
Stat. Acc.
2. The wheat-ear, S. the chack or check, of Orkn.
Fleming.

Sw. stens-quette, Germ. steinsch-waker, the wheat-ear.

Staneraw, Steinraw, s. Rock-liverwort, S.
Neill.

A. S. stan, Isl. stein, stone, and rawe hair.