strait, IV, 262, 23, strait and stay: another word for stay, stey, steep.

straith, strath, IV, 184 a: a valley through which a river runs.

straked, streaked. straked her trouth on a wand, II, 230, 9: a symbolical act, of gently rubbing or passing the fingers over a wand, by way of giving back a lover’s troth.

strand, I, 165, M 4; III, 460, 28; IV, 172, 15; 174, 16: stream. Sometimes hardly more than a rhyme-word. In, Scotland’s strands, strand, II, 289, 7; 294, 8, strand appears to be put for country, bounds; and for nothing more definite than way, road, in he gaed in the strand, etc., II, 177, 23; 289, B 2; III, 3, 5; IV, 210, 1. In, stript it to the stran, II, 390, 28, stran cannot mean more than plain (ground).

strang, V, [213], 5: urine kept for a lye, and smelling strong. See stale.

strang, strange.

strange, V, [76], 16: backward, diffident.

strated, V, [228], 15: stretched.

stratlins, I, 368, 23: straddlings, stridings.

straucht, straught, adj. and adv., I, 146, 14; 251, A 10; II, 461, 5; IV, 94, 9; 214, 1: straight.