a. Sc. [f. STERN sb.2 + -Y.] Starry.
a. 1500. Chaucer’s Parl. Foules, 43 (MS. Arch. Seld. B 24). A sterny [other MSS. sterry] place.
1552. Lyndesay, Monarche, 6045. Boith sterny heuin and Christellyng.
1599. A. Hume, Poems, viii. 10. Quhen darkenes hes the heauen revest, Bot ather Moone or Starnie light.
1858. M. Porteous, Souter Johnny, 31. But I maun stop—its no in verse Your starny travels to rehearse.
