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Stanit, ppl. adj. Also: stanitt, -e(i)t, -yt, -(e)d, stainit, -et, -ed, stonit(t, -yt, -(e)d, stonned, -id, sto(i)nd. [Late north. ME and north. e.m.E. staned (a1400-50), stanyd (Cath. Angl.), e.m.E. stoned (Coverdale); Stan(e n.]

1. Of a male horse: Uncastrated, entire. = Stane hors (Stan(e n. 25 e). Cf. Stan(e n. 16 c.(a) 1526 St. P. Henry VIII IV 462.
Thair horssis aswele stanit as geldingis 1554 Acts II 601/2.
Scheip, nolt, meris, horsis, stanit and vnstanit 1600 Reg. Privy C. VI 180.
[A young gray] stainit [horse worth 1000 merks] 1609 Arch. Scot. IV 392.
Tua staneit horse 1613 Crim. Trials III 252.
Stanet 1633 Household Bks. Archb. Sharp MS 2b.
Stained 1648 Linlithgow Palace 333.
Stand 1648 Falkirk Baron Ct. 22 March.
Stainet 1697 Foulis Acc. Bk. 205.
Staned(b) 1513 Doug. iv Prol. 59.
The stonyt hors … by the sent of a meyr [etc.] 1531 Bell. Boece I xv.
The mule is of ane langar live Than stonit hors a1605 Montg. Misc. P. xli 37.
The stoned steed stampis 1646 J. Hope Diary (1958) 189.
4 stonned horses, 5 geldings and tuo mearrs 1648 Peebles B. Rec. I 382.
Lord Ramsay … with ane gray stoned young hors win the silver bell of Peblis 1668 Melrose Reg. Rec. II 228.
Ther stoned horse did kill ane meare perteining to the said Agnes Merton 1668 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Deeds I 136.
Ane gray stoned naig 1674 Stitchill Baron Ct. 75.
Stonnid 1675 Cunningham Diary 5.
I having in August last sold him my little ston'd naigg for 100 lb. 1679 Fawside Coal Compt 49a.
Stoind 1685 Fam. Rose 366.
£600 as the pryce of ane stoned horse 1709 Corshill Baron Ct. 240.
For cureing a mare with the persewer stoned horse 1697 Foulis Acc. Bk. 205.
Mr. Joⁿ Dundas gray stond horss

2. Of a fruit: Having hard stonelike seeds. 1513 Doug. iii ix 111.
My wrachit fude was berreis of the brymmyll, And stanyt heppis, quhilk I on buskis fand

3. Of a ring: Furnished with a (precious) stone or stones. Cf. Stan(e n. 11. 1618 Edinb. Test. L 65a.
I leiue to … my brother dochter … ane broun stanitt ring 1684 S. Leith Rec. 143.
Cath. Garvie paunded a stoned ring