ALLAR, ALLER, s. The alder, a tree,
S.
Statist. Acc.
ALLER, adv. Wholly, entirely, altogether.
Aller-hale, a pleonasm.
Barbour.
O. E. alder, id. often prefixed to a superlative.
V. Allaris.
ALLERIS, s. pl. The same with Allaris.
Douglas.
ALLEVIN, part. pa. Allowed, admitted.
Bannatyne Poems.
A. S. alef-an, concedere, permittere; Su. G. lofw-a, Moes. G. laub-jan, id.
ALLIA.
V. Alya.
ALLYNS, adv. Altogether, thoroughly.
Gawan and Gol.
Su. G. alleingis, allaengis, A. S. allinga, eallenga, omnino, prorsus.
ALLKYN, ALKIN, adj. All kind of,
Aw kin kind, S. B.
Douglas.
A. S. eall-cyn, omnigenus.
ALL OUT, adv. In a great degree, beyond
comparison.
Barbour.
To ALLOW, v. a.
1. To approve of, generally
with the prep. of subjoined.
Rollock.
2. To praise, to commend.
Douglas.
Fr. allou-er, approbare, Su. G. lofw-a, laudare.
ALLPUIST, APIEST, APIECE, conj.
Although, S. B. abies, Loth.
Jour. Lond.
Perhaps corr. from albeit.
ALLRYN, adj. Constantly, progressive,
applied to time.
Barbour.
A. S. all omnis, and rinn-an, currere.
ALLSTRYNE, adj. Ancient.
Maitland Poems.
A. S. ald, old, and strynd, generation, or stryn-an, to beget.
ALLTHOCHTE, conj. Although.
Douglas.
A. S. all, all, and thohte, part. pa. q.
"every thing taken into consideration."
V. Thocht.
ALLUTERLIE, ALLUTTERLY, adv.
Wholly, entirely.
Douglas.
A. S. all omnis, and uter, utter, exterior, from ut extra.
ALL-WEILDAND, adj. All-governing.
Wallace.
A. S. all, all, and weald-an, to govern; Franc. alluualt, Isl. all-valdur, omnipotent.
ALMANIE WHISTLE, a flagelet of a very small size, used by children, Aberd.
Thus denominated, because whistles of this kind were originally imported from Almanie, i. e. Germany.
ALMASER, ALMOSEIR, s. An almoner,
or dispenser of alms.
Dunbar.
From Almous, alms.
ALMERIE, ALMORIE, s. Anciently
a place where alms were deposited or
distributed; in latter times used to denote
a press or cupboard, where utensils
for house keeping are laid up; the same
with E. ambry.
Dunbar.
O. Fr. almoire, aumuire, A. S. almerige, repositorium, scrinium.
ALMOUS, ALMOWS, AUMIS, s.
Alms, S. Almesse, O. E.
Wyntown.
A. S. almes, almesse; Sw. almosa; Gr. ελεημοσυνα.
ALPE, s. An elephant. Alpes bon, ivory.
Gl. Complaynt S.
A. S. elp, Lat. eleph-as; Heb. alaph, bos.
ALQUHARE, ALLQUHARE, adv.
Every where.
Douglas.
From all, and quhare where.
ALRY, adj.
For its different senses, V. Elrische.
ALRYNE, s. Apparently a watch-tower,
or the highest part of a castle.
Maitland Poems.
Su. G. hall-a defendere, hallare praesidium, hallarena watchmen.
ALS, conj. As; generally employed in the
first part of a comparison; "Als fers
as a lyoun," i. e. "As fierce as a lion."
Wallace.
From A. S. ealles, omnino; or eall swa, ita, tam.
ALS, ALSE, adv. Also, in the same manner.
V. Sua, Alsua.
Barbour.
A. S. eall swa, etiam.
ALSAME, ALSAMEN, adv. Altogether.
Douglas.
From A. S. eall all, and same together. Alem. alsamen, simul.
ALSMEKLE, adv. As much.
Acts Ja. I.
From als, and mekle, much, great.
ALSONE, adv. As soon, with as subjoined.
Barbour.
Properly als sone, A. S. eall swa sona.
A. S. alswa, sicut.
ALSWYTH, adv. Forthwith
Barbour.
From all, and swith, quickly, q. v.
ALUTERLY, adv.
V. Alluterlie.
ALWAIES, ALWAYIS, conj. Although;
notwithstanding, however.
Bellenden.
AMAILLE, s. Enamel.
King's Quair.
Fr. Belg. email, Dan. amel; Teut. mael-en pingere, A. S. mael, imago.
AMAIST, adv. Almost, S. ameast, Westmorel.
Ross.
A. S. ealmaest, Belg. almeest, id.
AMANG, AMANGIS, prep.
1. Among; amang, S. Westmorel.
Wyntown.
2. At intervals, occasionally.
Barbour.
A. S. meng-an, Su. G. maeng-a, Isl. meng-a, to mix, to blend.
AMBASSATE, AMBASSIAT, s. An
embassy, as denoting the persons sent
considered collectively.
Douglas.
Fr. ambassade, id.
AMBRY, s. A press in which the provision
for the daily use of a family in the
country is locked up, S.
V. Almerie.
To AMEISE, AMESE, AMEYSS, v. a.
To mitigate, to appease.
Barbour.
Franc. mezz-an, Germ. mass-en, moderari, mitigare; C. B. masw, soft.
AMENE, adj. Pleasant.
Douglas.
Lat. amoen-us, id.
AMERAND, adj. Green, verdant; probably
written ameraud.
Douglas.
From the colour of the emerald, Fr. emeraud.
AMERIS, AUMERS, s. pl. Embers;
aumers, S. B.
Douglas.
A. S. aemyria, Belg. ameren, Isl. eimyria, favilla.
AMYRALE, s. An admiral.
Wyntown.
Fr. amiral; Arab. amir, a lord, ameer al omrah, prince of the princes.
To AMIT, v. a. to admit.
Wallace.
AMMELYT, part. pa. Enamelled.
Douglas.
Fr. emaill-er, L. B. amayl-are, id.
To AMMONYSS, v. a. To admonish, to
counsel.
V. Monesting.
Barbour.
AMORETTIS, s. pl. Loveknots, garlands.
King's Quair.
Fr. amourettes, love-tricks, dalliances, Cotgr.
To AMOVE, AMOW, v. a. To move
with anger, to vex, to excite.
Wyntown.
Fr. emouv-oir, id.
AMOUR, s. Love.
Douglas.
Fr. id. Lat. amor.
AMSCHACH, s. A misfortune. S. B.
Ross.
Ir. Gael. anshogh, adversity, misery.
AMSHACK, s. Noose, fastening; probably
the same with Ham-shackel, q. v.
Gl. Sibb.
To AN, v. a.
1. To appropriate, to allot
as one's own.
Sir Tristrem.
2. To owe, to be indebted to.
Sir Trist.
Su. G. egn-a proprium facere, from egen proprius; A. S. agnian possidere, from agen proprius.
AN, AND, conj.
1. If, S. "If, and An,
spoils mony a gude charter," S. Prov.
Barbour.
2. Sometimes used as equivalent to E.
although.
W. Guthrie.
Su. G. aen si, et; Isl. end, id.
To ANALIE, v. a. To dispone, to alienate;
a juridical term.
Reg. Maj.
By transposition from Lat. alien-are.
ANALIER, s. One who alienates property, by transporting it to another country.
Lat. alien-ator.
Stat. Rob. I.
To ANAME, v. a. To call over names,
to muster.
Wyntown.
To ANARME, ANNARME, v. a. To
arm.
Acts Ja. I.
ANCLETH, HANCLETH, s. The ancle.
Gl. Sibb.
AND, conj.
V. An.
ANE, adj. One, S.
Barbour.
Moes. G. ain; A. S. an, ane; anc. Su. G. an; mod. Su. G. en; Isl. Germ. ein; Belg. een, id.
ANE, article, signifying one, but with less
emphasis.
Barbour.
To ANE, v. n. To agree, to accord. Pret.
anyd.
Wyntown.
Germ. ein-en, concordare, convenire; Su. G. en-a, firmiter aliquid proponere; Isl. eining, unio; Su. G. enig; Germ. einig. concors.
ANEABIL, s. A single woman; properly
one who is used as a concubine.
Reg. Maj.
O. Fr. anable, habile, capable, convenable, from L. B. inhabil-is, valde habilis; Gl. Roquefort.
ANEDING, s. Breathing.
V. Aynd, v.
Barbour.
ANEFALD, adj. Honest, acting a faithful
part, the same with Afald.
Douglas.
ANELIE, adv. Only.
R. Bruce.
ANELYD, part. pa. Aspired; literally,
panted for.
Wyntown.
Fr. anhel-er, to aspire after; Lat. anhel-are, L. B. anel-are.
ANENS, ANENST, ANENT, ANENTIS,
prep.
1. Over against, opposite to, S.
Barbour.
2. Concerning, about, in relation to;
still used by old people, S.
Acts Ja. I.
Gr. αναντι, oppositum; A. S. ongean, ex adverso.
To ANERD, ANNERE.
V. Anherd.
ANERLY, ANYRLY, adv. Only, alone,
singly. Hence allanerly.
Barbour.
A. S. anre, tantum; Germ. einer, solus, from an and ein, unus.
ANERLY, ANERLIE, adj. Single, solitary;
only.
G. Buchanan.
ANETH, prep. Beneath, S.
Bord. Minstrelsy.
A. S. on in, and neothan, deorsum; Isl. nedan, Belg. neden. Su. G. ned. id.
ANEUCH, adv. (gutt.) Enough, S.
Dunbar.
A. S. genog, genoh, satis, deduced by H. Tooke from genog-an, multiplicare; perhaps rather from Moes. G. janoh multi, many.
ANEWIS, s. pl. "Budding flowers," Tytler.
King's Quair.
Perhaps rings, from Fr. anneau, annulus.
ANGELL-HEDE, s. The hooked or barbed
head of an arrow.
Wallace.
A. S. Dan. Germ. angel, a hook, an angle; Teut. anghel, a sting, O. Teut. anghel-en, to sting.
ANGIR, s. Grief, vexation.
Wyntown.
Gr. ἀγγρις, grief; Isl. angr, dolor, moeror; Su. G. Isl. angra, dolore afficere, deduced by Ihre from aung-a premere, arctare.
To ANHERD, ANERD, ANNERE,
ENHERDE, v. n. To consent, to adhere.
Wyntown.
A. S. anhraed, anraed, signifies constans, concors, unanimis; apparently from an one, and raed counsel. But I find O. Fr. enherdance rendered by Roquefort, adherence, attachment. Lat. inhaerere, to cleave, or stick fast in, or to, is therefore the more probable origin.
ANIEST, adv. or prep. On this side of, Ayrs.; q. "on the nearest side." This is opposed to Adist, adiest, on that side.
A. S. on neawiste, in vicinia, prope ad; or on and neahst proximus, from neah near, E. nigh.
ANYD, pret. Agreed.
V. Ane, v.
ANYNG, s. Agreement, concord.
Wyntown.
ANIS, ANYS, AINS, adv. Once; pron.
as ainze, or yince, S. eenze, S. B.
Douglas.
The genit. of A. S. an, unus, one, anes unius, also rendered semel, q. actio unius temporis.
ANIS, ANNIS, s. pl.
1. Asses.
Chron. S. P.
2. Metaphor used for foolish fellows.
Bannatyne P.
Fr. asne, Lat. asinus; Su. G. asna, Isl. esne.
ANYS, the genitive of Ane, one.
V. Anis.
ANKER-SAIDELL, HANKERSAIDLE,
s. A hermit, an anchorite.
Philotus.
A. S. ancer-setle, an anchorite's cell or seat, a hermitage; from ancer, a hermit, Lat. anachoreta, Gr. αναχωρητης.
ANKERSTOCK, s. A large loaf, of an
oblong form. The name is extended to
a wheaten loaf, but properly belongs to
one made of rye, S.
Gl. Sibb.
Q. an anchorite's stock, or supply; or from some fancied resemblance to the stock of an anchor.
ANLAS, s. Properly "a kind of knife or
dagger usually worn at the girdle," as
the term occurs in Chaucer; but used
to denote a pike fixed in the cheveron
of a horse.
Sir Gawan.
Franc. anelaz, analeze, adlaterale telum, from lez latus, the side; C. B. anglas, a dagger; L. B. anelac-ius, id.
ANN, s. A half-year's salary legally due
to the heirs of a minister, in addition to
what was due expressly according to
the period of his incumbency, S.
Acts Cha. II.
Fr. annate, L. B. annata.
ANMAILLE, s. Enamel.
V. Amaille.
To ANORNE, v. a. To adorn.
Douglas.
L. B. inorn-are, Tertullian.
ANSE, ANZE, ENSE, conj. Else, otherwise, Ang.
Allied perhaps to Su. G. annars alias.
To ANTER, v. n.
1. To adventure, S. B.
Ross.
2. To chance, to happen, S. B.
Journ. Lond.
3. In the form of a participle, as signifying
occasional, single, rare.
An antrin
ane, one of a kind met with singly
and occasionally, or seldom, S.
Ferguson.
To be viewed as the same with Aunter, q. v.
ANTERCAST, s. A misfortune, a mischance,
S. B.
Ross.
Anter, or aunter, adventure, and cast, a chance, q. something accidental.
ANTETEWME, s. "Antetune, antiphone,
response," L. Hailes.
Bannatyne P.
ANTYCESSOR, ANTECESSOWR,
ANTECESTRE, s. An ancestor, a predecessor.
Lat. antecessor.
Wallace.
APAYN, part. pa. Provided, furnished.
Barbour.
Fr. appan-é, having received a portion, appan-er to give a portion, L. B. apan-are, id. from pain, Lat. pan-is, as originally denoting the supply of bread and other necessaries of life.
APAYN, adv.
1. Reluctantly, unwillingly;
sometimes written distinctly, a payn.
Barbour.
2. Hardly, scarcely.
Wallace.
3. It seems improperly used for in case.
Wallace.
4. Under pain, at the risk of. In editions,
on payn.
Wallace.
Fr. à peine, "scarcely, hardly, not without much ado," Cotgr.
A PER SE, "An extraordinary or incomparable
person; like the letter A by
itself, which has the first place in the alphabet
of almost all languages;" Rudd.
Chaucer id.
Douglas.
APERSMAR, APIRSMART, adj.
Crabbed, ill-humoured; snell, calschie, S. synon.
Douglas.
A. S. afor, afre, Isl. apur, asper, (as apurkylde, acre frigus); and A. S. smeorte, Su. G. smarta, pain. Haldorson remarks, that the Isl. term is also applied to one of austere manners.
APERT, adj. Brisk, bold, free.
Barbour.
Fr. appert, expert, prompt; Lat. apparat-us, prepared.
APERT. In apert, adv. Evidently, openly.
Barbour.
Fr. apert, appert, open, evident; from appar-oir, Lat. appar-ere, to appear.
APERTLY, adv. Briskly, readily.
V. Apert, adj.
Barbour.
APIEST, APIECE, conj. Although.
V. Allpuist.
APILL RENYEIS, s. pl. A string, or
necklace of beads; q. a rein or bridle
of beads, formed like apples.
Dunbar.
APLIGHT, adv. Completely; O. E. apliht.
Sir Tristrem.
A. S. on and pliht periculum, pliht-an periculo objicere se.
APON, APOUN, prep. Upon, S.
Barbour.
A. S. ufa, Su. G. uppa, insuper, and on.
APORT, APORTE, s. Deportment, carriage.
Wyntown.
Fr. apport, from apport-er, to carry; Lat. ad and port-are.
To APPAIR, v. a. To injure, to impair,
O. E. apeir.
Detect. Q. Mary.
Fr. emper-er, id.
V. Pare, v.
APPARELLE, APPARYLE, APPARAILL,
s. Equipage, furniture for warfare,
preparations for a siege, whether
for attack or defence; ammunition.
Barbour.
Fr. appareil, provision, furniture, preparations for war.
APPIN, adj. Open, S.
Complaynt S.
Dan. aaben apertus; Isl. opna foramen. Wachter derives Germ. offen, apertus, from auf up.
APPLERINGIE, s. Southernwood, S. Artemisia abrotanum, Linn.
Fr. apilé strong, and auronne southernwood, from Lat. abrotanum, id.
To APLEIS, APPLESS, v. a. To satisfy,
to content, to please.
Wallace.
Apparently from an obsolete Fr. v. of the form of applaire.
APPLY, s. Plight, condition.
Sir Egeir.
Fr. pli state, habit.
To APPORT, v. a. To bring, to conduce.
Fr. apport-er, id.
R. Bruce.
To APPREUE, APPRIEVE, v. a. To
approve.
Douglas.
Fr. approuver, Lat. approbare.
AR, ARE, adv. Formerly; also, early.
V. Air.
To AR, ARE, ERE, v. a. To plough, to
till, S. to ear, E
Douglas.
Moes. G. ar-ian, Su. G. aer-ia. Isl. er-ia, A. S. er-ian, Alem. err-en, Germ. er-en, Gr. αρ-ειν, Lat. ar-are. Ihre views Heb. ץאר ar-etz, earth, as the fountain.
ARAGE, ARRAGE, ARYAGE, AUARAGE,
AVERAGE, s. Servitude
due by tenants, in men and horses, to
their landlords. This custom is not entirely
abolished in some parts of Scotland.
"Arage and carriage" is a phrase
still commonly used in leases.
Skene.
L. B. averag-ium, from aver-ia, a beast for work; and this perhaps from Fr. ouvre work.
To ARAS, ARRACE, v. a.
1. To snatch
or pluck away by force.
Wyntown.
2. To raise up.
Douglas.
This sense is so different from the former, that it might rather seem to be put for arraise, q. to raise up.
Fr. arrach-er, to tear, to pull by violence; to pull up by the roots, from Lat. eradic-are.
ARBY, s. The sea-gilliflower, Orkn.
Neill.
ARBY-ROOT, s. The root of the sea-pink, or Statice armeria, Orkn.
ARCH, ARGH, AIRGH, ERGH,
(gutt.) adj.
1. Averse, reluctant; often
including the idea of timidity as the
cause of reluctance, S.
Douglas.
2. Apprehensive, filled with anxiety, S.
Chaucer, erke, weary, indolent.
Popul. Ball.
A. S. earg, desidiosus, iners, slothful, sluggish, earh fugax, "timorous, and ready to run away for fear," Somn. Isl. arg-ur, reformidans; arg-r piger, deses; Su. G. arg, ignavus. Among the Goths argur, L. B. arga, denoted a poltroon, a coward.
To ARCH, ARGH, v. n. To hesitate, to
be reluctant.
V. Ergh, v.
ARCHNES, ARGHNESS, s.
1. Reluctance,
backwardness.
Wodrow.
2. Obliquely used for niggardliness, q.
reluctance to part with any thing.
Legend Bp. St Androis.
To AREIK, ARREIK, v. a. To reach,
to extend.
Douglas.
A. S. arecc-an, assequi, to get, to attain.
AREIR, adv. Back.
To rin areir, to decline.
Lyndsay.
Fr. arriere backward; Lat. a retro.
ARESOUND, pret. Perhaps, called in question; Fr. aresoner, interroger, questionner, demander; ratiocinari; Gl. Roquefort. Areson is used by R. Brunne in the sense of persuade, or reason with.
Sir Tristrem.
ARETTYT, part. pa. Accused, brought
into judgment.
Barbour.
L. B. rect-are, ret-are, arett-are, accusare, in jus vocare, Du Cange.
ARGENT CONTENT, Ready money.
Fr. argent comptant, id.
Bellenden.
To ARGH, v. n. To hesitate.
V. Arch,
and Ergh, v.
ARGIE, s. Assertion in a dispute, the specific plea which one uses in disputation, S. B.
Su. G. ierga, semper eadem obgannire; Isl. iarg-r, keen contention.
To ARGLE-BARGLE, AURGLE-BARGIN,
v. n. To contend, to bandy
backwards and forwards, S.
Argle-bargin,
Loth. Eaggle-bargin, synon.
Ramsay.
Isl. arg enraged, jarg-a to contend.
To ARGONE, ARGOWNE, ARGWE,
ARGEW, v. a.
1. To argue, to contend
by argument.
Bannatyne Poems.
2. To censure, to reprehend, to chide
with.
Wallace.
Fr. argu-er, Lat. argu-ere.
ARGUESYN, s. The lieutenant of a galley;
he who has the government and keeping of the slaves committed to him.
Knox.
Fr. argousin, satelles remigibus regendis et custodiendis praepositus, Dict. Trev.
To ARGUMENT, v. a. To prove, to shew.
Crosraguel.
Lat. argument-ari, to reason.
ARK, s. A large chest, especially one used
for holding corn or meal, S.
Bannatyne Poems.
A. S. arce, erce, a chest, a coffer; Alem. arca; Su. G. ark, Lat. arca, Gael. arc.
Hence,
Eel-Ark, s. That kind of box which is placed in lakes, ponds, &c., for catching and retaining eels; a term common in old deeds.
ARK of a Mill, the place in which the centre-wheel runs, S.
ARK-BEIN, the bone called the os pubis, S. B.
To ARLE, v. a.
1. To give an earnest of
any kind, S.
2. To give a piece of money for confirming
a bargain, S.
3. To put a piece of money into the
hand of a seller, at entering into a bargain,
as a security that he shall not sell to
another while he retains this money, S.
Skene.
L. B. arrh-are, arrhis sponsam dare, Fr. arrh-er, arr-er.
ARLES, ERLIS, ARLIS, ARLIS-PENNY,
AIRLE PENNY, s.
1. An
earnest of whatever kind, a pledge of
full possession, S. A. Bor.
Wyntown.
2. A piece of money given for confirming
a bargain, S. A. Bor.
Acts Ja. IV.
3. A piece of money put into the hands
of a seller when one begins to cheapen
any commodity; as a pledge that the
seller shall not strike a bargain, or even
enter into terms with another while he
retains the arles, S.
Lat. arrhabo, arrha, Gael. iarlus, id.
ARLICH, ARLITCH, adj. Sore, fretted,
painful, S. B.
V. Arr.
Su. G. arg iratus, arg-a laedere, Dan. arrig, troublesome; as we say, "an angry sore;" or from Su. G. aerr cicatrix, whence aerrig vulneratus.
ARLY, adv. Early.
Barbour.
A. S. arlice, matutinè.
ARMYN, ARMYNG. s. Armour, arms.
Wyntown.
ARN, s. The alder; a tree, S. pronounced in some counties q. arin.
C. B. uern, Arm. vern, guern, Gael. fearn, alnus.
ARN, v. subst. Are, the third pers. plural;
Chaucer arn.
Sir Gawan.
A. S. aron, sunt.
ARNS, s. pl. The beards of corn, S. B. synon. awns.
Franc. arn spica.
ARNUT, LOUSY ARNOT, s. Tall oat-grass
or pignut; Bunium bulbocastanum,
or flexuosum, Linn. S.
Yurnut.
A. Bor.
Lightfoot.
Corr. from earth-nut.
ARR, s. A scar, S. A. Bor.
Pock-arrs, the marks left by the small-pox, S. Lancash.
Su. G. aerr, Isl. aer, cicatrix.
ARRED, part. adj. Scarred, having the
marks of a wound or sore.
Hence, Pock arred, marked by the small-pox, S.
Dan. arred cicatrised; Isl. aerra cicatrices facere.
To ARRACE.
V. Aras.
ARRONDELL, s. The swallow, a bird.
Burel.
Fr. arondelle, hirondelle, from Lat. hirundo, id.
ARSECOCKLE, s. A hot pimple on the face or any part of the body, S. B. The term seems originally to have been confined to pimples on the hips; synon. with Teut. aers bleyne, tuberculus in ano.
ARSEENE, s. The quail.
Houlate.
A. S. aerschen, coturnix, also erschenn, from ersc and henn, q. gallina vivarii.
ARSELINS, adv. Backwards, Clydes.
S. B.
Ross.
Belg. aersel-en, to go backwards; aerseling receding; aerselincks, retro.
ARSOUN, s. Buttocks.
Barbour.
ART, ARD.
This termination of many words, denoting a particular habit or affection,
is analogous to Isl. and Germ. art, Belg. aart, nature, disposition; as
E. drunkard, bastard; Fr. babillard, a stutterer; S. bombard,
bumbart, a drone, stunkart, of a stubborn disposition; hastard,
hasty, passionate.
ART and PART, Accessory to, or abetting,
a forensic phrase, S. used in a bad
sense. Art denotes the instigation or advice,
Part the share that one has in the
commission of a crime.
Erskine.
The terms are frequently used in the way of discrimination, "Art or part."
Wyntown.
Borrowed from the Lat. phrase, Artem et partem habuit.
ARTAILYE, s. Artillery; applied to offensive
weapons of what kind soever, before
the introduction of fire arms.
V.
Artillied.
Wallace.
ARTATION, s. Excitement, instigation.
Bellenden.
L. B. artatio, from arto for arcto, arc, to constrain.
ARTILLIED, part. pa. Provided with
artillery.
Pitscottie.
Fr. artill-er, to furnish with ordinance.
ARTHURY'S HUFE, the name given
to the constellation Arcturus.
Douglas.
V. Hoif.
ARTOW, Art thou? used interrogatively, S. the verb and pronoun being often, in colloquial language, conjoined in Scottish, as in Germ. and Isl.
Isl. ertu, id.
King's Quair.
Ertow, id.
Ywaine and Gawin.
AS, conj. Than, S. synon. with nor.
Kelly.
AS, ASS, ASSE, ALSE, s. Ashes; plur.
assis, S. ass and aiss; A. Bor. ass, Cumberl.
esse, id.
Dunbar.
Moes. G. asja, Alem. asca, Germ. and Belg. asche, Su. G. and Isl. aska, cinis.
ASSHOLE, s. The place for receiving the
ashes under the grate; S. Lancash. esshole,
ashole, id.
V. Preceding word.
ASCHET, s. A large flat plate on which meat is brought to the table, S.
Fr. assiette, "a trencher-plate," Cotgr.
ASYNIS, s. pl. Asses.
Bellenden.
Fr. asne, Lat. asin-us.
ASK, AWSK, s. An eft, a newt; a kind
of lizard, S.; asker, A. Bor.
Wyntown.
Germ. eidechs, eidex; Franc. edehsa; A. S. athexe; Belg. egdisse, haagdisse, id. Wachter deduces the Germ. word from ey, eg, ovum, and tyg-en gignere, q. "produced from an egg."
ASKLENT, ASCLENT, ASKLINT,
adv. Obliquely, asquint, on one side, S.
Aslant, E.
R. Bruce.
Swed. slant, obliquus, from slind latus.
ASPECT, s. The serpent called the asp,
or aspik, Fr. aspic.
Burel.
ASPERANS, adj. Lofty, elevated, pompous;
applied to diction.
Wallace.
Fr. aspirant, Lat. aspirans, aspiring.
ASPERT, adj. Harsh, cruel.
King's Quair.
Fr. aspre, Lat. asper.
ASPYNE, s. From the connexion, apparently
meant to denote a boat.
Barbour.
Swed. esping, a long boat, Teut. hespinghe, espinck, cymba, a small boat.
ASPRE, adj. Sharp.
V. Aspert.
Wallace.
ASPRESPER, s. Perhaps q. "sharp
spear;" like aspre bow, also used by
Blind Harry.
Wallace.
Fr. asper, dur, rude, bâton noueux; Gl. Roquefort.
ASPRIANCE, s.
V. Asperans.
To ASS, v. a. To ask.
Henrysone.
Germ. eisch-en, Fran. eiscon, interrogare.
ASS, s. Ashes.
V. As.
To ASSAILYIE, v. a. To attack, to assail.
Wallace.
Fr. assaill-ir; L. B. adsal-ire, assal-ire, invadere, aggredi.
ASSAYIS, s. Assize, convention.
Wyntown.
ASSEDATION, s.
1. A lease; a term
still commonly used in our legal deeds,
S.
Balfour.
2. The act of letting in lease.
L. B. assedatio.
Chalmerl. Air.
To ASSEGE, v. a. To besiege.
Wyntown.
Fr. assieg-er, L. B. assidiare, obsidere; from Lat. ad, and sedeo.
To ASSEMBLE, v. n. To join in battle.
Wyntown.
Fr. assembl-er, from Su. G. saml-a, Germ. saml-en, Belg. zamel-en, congregare; from Su. G. and Germ. sam, a prefix denoting association and conjunction.
ASSEMBLÉ, s. Engagement, battle.
Wyntown.
ASSENYHE, s. The word of war.
Corr. from Ensenyie, q. v.
Barbour.
ASSILAG, s. The stormy petrel, a bird;
Procellaria pelagica, Linn.
Martin.
Perhaps from Gael. eascal, Ir. eashal, a storm.
ASSILTRIE, s. An axle-tree.
Douglas.
Fr. asseul, Ital. assile, axis.
To ASSYTH, ASSYITH, SYITH,
SITHE, v. a. To make a composition
to another, to satisfy, Old E. asseeth,
asseth, id.
Acts Ja. I.
Lat. ad and A. S. sithe, vice; Skinner. Rather from Su. G. and Isl. saett-a conciliare; reconciliare. Ir. and Gael. sioth-am, to make atonement.
ASSYTH, ASSYTHMENT, SYTH,
SITHEMENT, s. Compensation, satisfaction,
atonement for an offence. Assythment
is still used as a forensic term.
S. O. E. aseeth, Wiclif.
Wyntown.
This word is still in use in our courts
of law, as denoting satisfaction for an
injury done to any party.
Su. G. saett, reconciliation, or the
fine paid in order to procure it.
To ASSOILYIE, v. a.
1. To acquit, to
free from a charge or prosecution; a
forensic term much used in our courts,
S.
Reg. Maj.
2. To absolve from an ecclesiastical censure;
as from excommunication.
Bellenden.
Old E. assoil, asoilen, and asoul, denote the absolution by a priest; P. Ploughman.
3. To pronounce absolution from sin, in
consequence of confession.
Abp. Hamiltoun.
4. To absolve from guilt one departed,
by saying masses for the soul; according
to the faith of the Romish church.
Barbour.
5. Used improperly, in relation to the
response of an oracle; apparently in the
sense of resolving what is doubtful.
Douglas.
6. Also used improperly, as signifying
to unriddle.
Z. Boyd.
O. Fr. assoilé, absoillé, dechargé, absous, despensé; Gl. Roquefort; corr. from Lat. absolv-ere.
To ASSONYIE, ESSONYIE, v. a.
1. To offer an excuse for absence from a
court of law.
Stat. K. Will.
2. Actually to excuse; the excuse offered
being sustained.
Quon. Attach.
3. To decline the combat, to shrink from
an adversary.
Wallace.
O. E. asoyned, excused; R. Glouc.
Essoine, a legal excuse, Chaucer.
V. Essonyie, s.
Fr. essoyner, exon-ier, to excuse from appearing in court, or going to the wars. Su. G. son-a, Germ. sun-en, to reconcile, to explain; Moes. G. sunj-an, to justify.
ASSURANCE, s. To take assurance of
an enemy; to submit, to do homage,
under the condition of protection.
Complaynt S.
Fr. donner assurement, fidem dare; L. B. assecur-are, from Lat. ad and secur-us.
ASTALIT, part. pa. Decked or set out.
Gawan and Gol.
Fr. estail-er, to display, to shew.
To ASTART, ASTERT, v. n.
1. To
start, to fly hastily.
King's Quair.
2. To start aside from, to avoid.
King's Quair.
Teut. steert-en, to fly; Germ, starz-en, to start up.
ASTEER, adv. In confusion, in a bustling
state; S. q. on stir.
Ritson.
ASTRE, s. A star; Fr.
Chron. S. Poet.
AT, conj. That; O. E. id. Gower.
Barbour.
Dan. and Swed. at, quod; Su. G. att, a conjunction corresponding to Lat. ut.
AT, pron. That, which.
Wyntown.
AT ALL, adv. "Altogether," Rudd.;
perhaps, at best, at any rate.
Douglas.
ATANIS, ATTANIS, ATANYS, ATONIS, adv. At once; S. at ainze.
V. Anis, Anys.
Gawan and Gol.
ATCHESON, ATCHISON, s. A billon
coin, or rather copper washed with silver,
struck in the reign of James VI.,
of the value of eight pennies Scots, or
two-thirds of an English penny.
Ruddiman.
From the name of the assay-master of the mint.
ATHARIST, Houlate III. 10.
V. Citharist.
ATHE, AITH, AYTHE, s. An oath;
plur. athis.
Barbour.
Moes. G. aith, A. S. ath, Precop. eth, Isl. aed, Su. G. ed, Dan. and Belg. eed, Alem. and Germ. eid, juramentum.
ATHER, conj. Either.
V. Athir.
R. Bruce.
ATHIL, ATHILL, HATHILL, adv.
Noble, illustrious.
Houlate.
A. S. aethel, nobilis; whence Aetheling, Atheling, a youth of the blood royal; Su. G. adel, id.; adling, juvenis nobilis; deduced from ancient Gothic aelt, kindred. C. B. eddyl is also equivalent to Lat. gens, cognatio.
ATHIL, HATHEL, s. A noble prince,
a man, an illustrious personage; plur.
athilles, (erroneously achilles,) hatheles.
Sir Gawan and Sir Gal.
ATHIR, ATHYR, pron.
1. Either,
whichsoever.
Wyntown.
2. Mutual, reciprocal.
Bellenden.
A. S. aegther, uterque.
V. Either.
ATHORT, prep. Through, S.; athwart,
E.
V. Thortour.
Baillie.
ATHORT, adv. Abroad, far and wide.
Baillie.
ATIR, EATIR, s. Gore, blood mixed
with matter.
Douglas.
A. S. ater, aetter, aettor; Alem. eitir, Isl. and Germ. eiter, Su. G. etter, venenum; from Alem. eit-en, to burn.
ATO, adv. In twain.
Sir Tristrem.
A. S. on twa, in duo.
ATOUR, s. Warlike preparation.
Fr. atour, attire.
Barbour.
ATOUR, ATTOURE, prep.
1. Over, S.
Wallace.
2. Across, S.
Wallace.
3. Beyond, as to time; exceeding.
Quon. Att.
4. Exceeding in number.
Wyntown.
Fr. a tour, en tour, au tour, circum; or Su. G. at, denoting motion towards a place, and oefwer, over.
ATOUR, ATTOUR, adv.
1. Moreover,
By and attour, id. Laws, S.
Pitscottie.
2. Out from, or at an indefinite distance
from the person speaking, or the object
spoken of.
Douglas.
To stand attour, to keep off; to go attour,
to remove to some distance, S.
By and attour, prep. Besides, over and
above, S.
Spalding.
ATRY, ATTRIE, adj.
1. Purulent, containing
matter; applied to a sore that is
cankered, S.
R. Bruce.
2. Stern, grim, S. B.; attern, fierce,
cruel, snarling; Gloucest.
V. Atir, Eatir.
Ross.
Belg. etterig, full of matter; eiter-en, to suppurate.
ATRYS, s. pl. Perhaps from Fr. atour, a
French hood.
Watson's Coll.
ATRYST, s. Appointment, assignation,
V. Tryst.
Dunbar.
ATTAMIE, A skeleton, S.
Abbreviated from Fr. anatomie.
ATTEILLE, ATTEAL, ATTILE, s.
Apparently the wigeon; being distinguished
from the teal.
Acts Ja. VI.
Isl. tialld-r, turdus marinus.
ATTELED, part. pa. Aimed.
Sir Gawan and Sir Gal.
V. Ettle.
ATTEMPTAT, s. A wicked or injurious
enterprise.
Bellenden.
L. B. attemptat-io, nefaria molitio, scelus, Gall. attentat; Du Cange.
ATTER-CAP, ATTIR-COP, s.
1. A
spider, S. Attercop, attercob, id. A. Bor.
Montgomery.
2. An ill-natured person; one of a virulent
or malignant disposition, S.
A. S. atter-coppe, atter-coppa, aranea, from atter venenum, and coppe calix, q. "a cup full of venom;" like Isl. eitrorm a serpent, i. e. "a poisonous worm."
ATTOUR, prep.
V. Atour.
ATWEESH, prep. Between.
Shirrefs.
Franc. tuisc, entuishan, Belg. tuschen, inter.
AVA', adv. At all, S.
Ross.
Corr. from af or of, and all.
AVAILL, s. Abasement, humiliation.
Dunbar.
Fr. aval-er, avall-er, to fall down; aval, en descendant, au bas, en bas; ad vall-em; Gl. Roquefort.
To AUALE, v. n. To descend.
V. Availl.
Douglas.
AUANT, AWANT, s. Boast, vaunt;
Chaucer, id.
Douglas.
AVANTCURRIER, s. One of the fore-runners
of an army, the same perhaps
that are now called picquet-guards.
Godscroft.
Fr. avantcoureur, from avant before, and courir to run.
AUCHINDORAS, s. A large thorn-tree at the end of a house; Fife.
AUCHLIT, s. Two stones weight, or a peck measure, being half of the Kirkcudbright bushel; Galloway.
AUCHT, AWCHT, (gutt.) pret. of Aw.
1. Possessed. Auht, id. R.Brunne.
Wyntown.
2. Owed, was indebted, id. R. Brunne.
Wyntown.
AUCHT, (gutt.) v. imp. Ought, should.
Douglas.
Auchten occurs in the same sense.
Douglas.
A. S. aht-on, the third pers. plur. pret. of A. S. ag-an, possidere.
AUCHT, s. Possession, property; what
is exclusively one's own. In aw my aucht,
in my possession, viewed at its utmost
extent, S.
V. Best Aucht.
Bannatyne Poems.
A. S. aht; Moes. G. aigin, aihn, peculiaris ac propria possessio.
AUCHT, (gutt.) adj. Eight, S. auhte, O.
E. id. R. Brunne.
Wyntown.
Moes. G. aht-au, A. S. eaht-a, Germ. aht, Belg. acht, Isl. and Su. G. att-a, Gael. ocht, Lat. oct-o.
AUCHTAND, AUCHTEN, adj. The
eighth. Isl. aatunde, octavus.
Douglas.
AVENAND, adj. Elegant in person and
manners.
Gawan and Gol.
Fr. advenant, avenant, handsome; also, courteous.
AVENTURE, In aventure, adv. Lest,
perchance.
V. Aunter.
Bellenden.