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 278 Stand sam. ^'To stand sam/' i.e., to stand treat, to pay for all, to bear the charge. This phrase is not peculiar to Cornwall only. It is noticed here because in Celtic Cornish, sam means a burden, a charge. Stank. A mess, a muddle, a scrape. ^^We'em in a putty stank now." Stanc is Celtic Cornish for a pool, a pond. Stank. To walk along, to step, to tread upon. '^ He's stankin' along at a putty rate." "What be'ee stankin' 'pon my toes vur you g'eat bufflehead '? " Stannary Laws, Stannaries, and Stannary Courts. " Are laws, praecincts, customs and courts peculiar only to tinners and tin mines." Pryce. Stare. A starling. Stares. Irregular spots or blotches. "It is full of stares." Star-gazing, Staare-gaaze, Starry-gazy, or Staring pie. A pie made of leeks and pilchards. Sometimes without leeks. The noses or heads of the fish show through a hole in the crust. Hence the name. Starving, or Steeving. Suffering from the cold. In Celtic Cornish stervys, or stevys, to catch cold, to be very cold. Stash. "There now, stash it there, i.e., Don't say another word. Mrs. Parr's Adam & Eve, Stave. To move quickly and noisily. To knock down. U.J.T.