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ˈstarnie Sc.
[f. starn, stern n.2 + -ie.]
A little star.
a1774Fergusson Hallowfair Poems (1845) 13 At Hallowmas when nights grow lang And starnies shine fu' clear. 1790Burns ‘O death! thou tyrant’ xiv, Ye twinkling starnies bright. 1815G. Beattie John o' Arnha' (1826) 12 Or modern Dux, wi' noddin' crest, An' starnies glancin' on his breast. 1833Chamb. Jrnl. No. 69. 136 In nights when the starnies were broonding wi' frost. |