ˈstarnie Sc.
[f. starn, stern n.2 + -ie.]
A little star.
| a 1774 Fergusson Hallowfair Poems (1845) 13 At Hallowmas when nights grow lang And starnies shine fu' clear. 1790 Burns ‘O death! thou tyrant’ xiv, Ye twinkling starnies bright. 1815 G. Beattie John o' Arnha' (1826) 12 Or modern Dux, wi' noddin' crest, An' starnies glancin' on his breast. 1833 Chamb. Jrnl. No. 69. 136 In nights when the starnies were broonding wi' frost. |