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Title: An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
Author: John Jamieson
Author: John Jamieson
Release date: August 18, 2012 [eBook #40521]Most recently updated: October 23, 2024
Language: English
Credits: Produced by Margo von Romberg, Louise Pryor and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AN ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE SCOTTISH LANGUAGE ***
INTRODUCTORY NOTEThis dictionary is an abridged edition of the two-volume quarto dictionary published in 1808. Numerous entries are prefixed by an asterisk, for which no explanation is given. According to the four-volume edition published in 1879-1882, "The asterisk signifies that the word to which it is prefixed, besides the common meaning in English, is used in a different sense in Scotland."Some entries are alphabetically out of sequence.Some entries are undefined. A full list is included in the Transcriber's Notes at the end.Some cross-references have spellings at variance with the word referred to. This reflects the fluidity of the spelling of Scottish words at the time the dictionary was compiled. Where the reference is clearly correct, a link has been made.A number of words for which a cross-reference is cited do not in fact appear in the dictionary. These are indicated by the colour green. A full list is included in the Transcriber's Notes.An alphabetical Table of Contents has been added in order to facilitate consultation of the dictionary.
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
This dictionary is an abridged edition of the two-volume quarto dictionary published in 1808. Numerous entries are prefixed by an asterisk, for which no explanation is given. According to the four-volume edition published in 1879-1882, "The asterisk signifies that the word to which it is prefixed, besides the common meaning in English, is used in a different sense in Scotland."
Some entries are alphabetically out of sequence.
Some entries are undefined. A full list is included in the Transcriber's Notes at the end.
Some cross-references have spellings at variance with the word referred to. This reflects the fluidity of the spelling of Scottish words at the time the dictionary was compiled. Where the reference is clearly correct, a link has been made.
A number of words for which a cross-reference is cited do not in fact appear in the dictionary. These are indicated by the colour green. A full list is included in the Transcriber's Notes.
An alphabetical Table of Contents has been added in order to facilitate consultation of the dictionary.
OF THE
SCOTTISH LANGUAGE
THE WORDS ARE EXPLAINED IN THEIR DIFFERENT SENSES,AUTHORISED BY THE NAMES OF THE WRITERS BY WHOM THEY ARE USED,OR THE TITLES OF THE WORKS IN WHICH THEY OCCUR,
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH,OF THE SOCIETY OF THE ANTIQUARIES OF SCOTLAND, AND OF THEAMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY.
PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY, ANDALEXANDER JAMESON, EDINBURGH,
Preface
An Explanation of the Contractions used in this Work
Rules for Rendering the use of the Dictionary more easy
ABCDEFGHI, J, Y vowelKLMNOPQRSTU, VWY consonant
Transcriber's Notes
The Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, which was published in the year 1808, has been so favourably received, that although the impression was large, a set is now rarely to be found; and at any rate cannot be purchased at less than double the price paid by Subscribers.
Asmany, who would wish to possess the original work, cannot now be supplied; while it has still been out of the reach of others, not less interested in our national literature; the Author has been advised to give it to the Public in an abridged form.
Hehas followed the same plan with that of the abridgment of DrJohnson's English Dictionary; in giving all the terms contained in the larger work, in their various significations, the names of the writersby whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and their derivations. In one instance only has he deviated from the plan of the great English Lexicographer, in placing the etymons after the definitions. This mode is undoubtedly the most simple; as a reader, when looking into a Dictionary for the origin of a word with which he is familiar, or for the signification of one with which he is unacquainted, must be supposed to turn his eye first to the definition, that he may know whether this is the word that he looks for, or whether, in the passage in which it has occurred, it can bear the sense there given, before he thinks of examining its origin, or can form any judgment as to the propriety of the etymon that may be offered.
Whilethis work contains a variety of words which are not to be found in the quarto edition, the Author flatters himself that he does not claim too much in supposing, that during ten years which have elapsed since it was published, he has had it in his power, from many sources formerly unexplored, to make considerable improvements both in the explanatory and in the etymological department. This, he trusts, will be evident to any who will take the trouble to compare the one work with the other.
Inmost instances, where he has met with new significations of the words explained in the larger work, he has inserted them in this, with their authorities. Such, indeed, is the copiousness of our vernacular language,that he is far from pretending that he has had it in his power to give a complete view of it. From the recent publication of many of our old acts formerly imprinted, from his own researches, and from the liberal communications both of friends and strangers, who have been anxious to render what they are pleased to consider a national work as complete as possible, the Author has been supplied with a great variety of terms which were formerly unknown to him. These he hopes to have it soon in his power to give to the public in an additional volume in quarto, in order to complete the former work. This, as far as he can calculate at present, will be equal in size to any of the preceding volumes.
Edinburgh,May 6. 1818.
A. Bor.Anglia Borealis, North of England.Adj.Adjective.Adv.Adverb.Alem.Alemannic language.Ang.Angus, county of.Arm.Armorican, or language of Bretagne.A. S.Anglo-Saxon language.Belg.Belgic language.C.B.Cambro-Britannic, or Welsh language.Celt.Celtic.Clydes.Clydesdale.Conj.Conjunction.Contr.Contracted, or Contraction.Corn.Cornish, or language of Cornwall.Corr.Corrupted, or corruption.Dan.Danish language.Dimin.Diminutive.Dumfr.Dumfriesshire.E.English language.Fr.French language.Franc.Frankish, Theotisc, or Tudesque language.Fris.Frisian dialect of the Belgic.Gael.Gaelic of the Highlands of Scotland.Germ.German language.Gl. Gloss.Glossary.Gl. Sibb.Glossary by Mr James Sibbald.Gr.Greek language.Heb.Hebrew language.Hisp.Spanish language.Ibid.In the same place.Id.Having the same signification; also, the same writer.Imper.Imperative.Ir.Irish language.Isl.Islandic (or Icelandic) language.Ital.Italian language.Lat.Latin language.L. B.Barbarous Latin.Loth.Lothian.Metaph.Metaphor, Metaphorical.Moes. G.Moeso-Gothic, as preserved in Ulphilas's Version of the Gospels.Mod.Modern.MS.Manuscript.N.Note.O.Old.Orkn.Orkney.Part. pr.Participle present.—— pa.—— past.Pers.Persian language.Perh.Perhaps.Pl.Plural.Prep.Preposition.Pret.Preterite.Pron.Pronoun;also, Pronounce, pronunciation.Prov.Proverb.Q.orq.Quasi.q. v.Quod vide.S.Scottish, Scotland.S.Denotes that a word is still used in Scotland.S. A.Scotia Australis, south of Scotland.S. B.Scotia Borealis, North of Scotland; also Northern Scots.Shetl.Shetland.Shirr.Shirrefs.S. O.Scotia Occidentalis, West of Scotland.s.Substantive.Su. G.Suio-Gothic, or ancient language of Sweden.Sw.Swedish language, (modern.)Term.Termination.Teut.Teutonic.Tweedd.Tweeddale.V.Vide, see.v.Verb.vo.Voce.
Y vowel, used by our ancient writers promiscuously withi, being in fact only doublei, and printedijin other northern languages, is to be sought for, not as it stands in the English alphabet, but in the same place with the letteri, throughout the work.
Words not found in SH, to be sought for under SCH.
Those, in like manner, not found in WH, to be sought for under QUH, expressing the sound of the old Gothic guttural.
Words, improperly printed in our old books withZ, to be looked for under Y consonant.
THE RADICAL AFFINITIES
"Dr Jamieson, being amply provided with an accurate knowledge of the various dialects of the Gothic Languages to be compared with the Greek, has proved the existence of a connection between them, more extensive and more intimate than could easily have been imagined, without so laborious an investigation, in which he appears to have gone considerably further than his learned and ingenious predecessors Ihre and Rudbeck."
Quarterly Review, No.XXVII, Oct. 1815.
Theletter A has, in the Scottish language, four different sounds:
1.Abroad, as in E.all,wall.Uis often added, as incald, cold, written alsocauld; and sometimesw; both as marks of the prolongation of the sound.
2.Ashort, inlak,mak,tak, S. as inlast,past, E.
3.Aopen, indad,daddie, a father, and some other words, S. as in E.readpret.,readyadj.
4.Aslender or close, inlane,alane, alone,mane, moan, S. likeface,place, E. The monosyllables have generally, although not always, a finalequiescent.
Ais used in many words instead ofoin E.; asane,bane,lang,sang,stane, forone,bone,long,song,stone. For the Scots preserve nearly the same orthography with the Anglo-Saxons, which the English have abandoned. Thus the words last mentioned were written in A. S.an,ban,lang,sang,stan. In some of the northern counties, as in Angus and Mearns, the sound ofeeoreiprevails, instead ofai, in various words of this formation.Ane,bane,stane, &c. are pronouncedein,bein,stein, after the manner of the Germans, who use each of these terms in the same sense.
When this letter is written with an apostrophe, asa', it is meant to intimate that the doublelis cut off, according to the pronunciation of Scotland. But this is merely of modern use.
Ais sometimes prefixed to words, both in S. and old E., where it makes no alteration of the sense; asabade, delay, which has precisely the same meaning withbade. This seems to have been borrowed from the A.S., in which languageabidanandbidanare perfectly synonymous, both simply signifying, to remain, to tarry.
A, in composition, sometimes signifieson; asagrufe, on thegrufeor belly, S.; Isl.a grufu, cernuè, pronè. Johnson thinks thata, in the composition of such E. words asaside,afoot,asleep, is sometimes contracted fromat. But thesetermsare unquestionably equivalent toon side,on foot,on sleep; on being used, in the room ofa, by ancient writers.
Ais used, by our oldest writers, in the sense ofone. The signification is more forcible than that of the indefinite article in English; for it denotes, not merely an individual, where there may be many, or one in particular, but one exclusively of others, in the same sense in whichaeis vulgarly used.
ABAD, ABADE, ABAID,s.Delay, abiding, tarrying; the same withBad,Bade.
A. S.abid-an, manere.
Wallace.
ABAID,part. pa.Waited, expected.
A. S.abad, expectatus.
Douglas.
ToABAY, ABAW,v. a.To astonish.Abayd, part. pa. astonished;abawed, Chaucer.
Fr.esbah-ir, id.
K. Hart.
ToABAYS,v. a.To abash, to confound.Abaysyd, part. pa.Wyntown.
Fr.abass-ir, id.
ABAITMENT,s.Diversion, sport.Douglas.
Arm.ebat-aludere,ebatludus; O. Fr.ebaud-irrecreare,ebattementrecreatio.
ABAK,adv.Back, behind; Chaucer, id.Douglas.
Isl.aabak, retrorsum, A. S.on baec, id.
ABANDOUN.In abandoun,at abandoun, at random.Barbour.Chaucer usesbandonas denoting free will, pleasure.
Fr.en ábandon,à l'ábandon, id. fromà,ban, anddonner, to give up to interdiction.
ToABANDON,v. a.1. To bring under absolute subjection.Barbour.2. To let loose, to give permission to act at pleasure.Wallace.3. To destroy, to cut off.Wallace.
Fr.abandonn-er, id.
ABANDONLY,adv.At random, without regard to danger.Wallace.
ABASIT,part. pa.Confounded, abashed.Douglas.
ABATE,s.Accident; something that surprises one, as being unexpected.King's Quair.
Fr.abatt-re, to daunt, to overthrow; orabet-ir, stupidum,hebet-em, reddere.
ToABAW.V.Abay.
ABBEIT,s.Dress, apparel, O. E.abite.Bannatyne Poems.
Arm.abyt,abyta, Lat.habit-us, Fr.habit, id.
ABBACY, ABBASY,s.An abbey.
L. B.abatia, id.
Acts. Ja. III.
ABBOT OF UNREASON, a sort of histrionic character, anciently exhibited in Scotland, but afterwards forbidden by Act of Parliament.Acts Marie.
This was one of the Christmas sports; and, as the ancientSaturnalialevelled all distinction of ranks, the design of this amusement was to ridicule the solemnity of the proceedings of an Abbot, or other dignified clergyman. It is the same with theAbbot of Misrule, and distinguished in name only from theBoy-Bishop, characters formerly well known both in England and in France. The principal personage was denominated theAbbot of Unreason, because his actings were inconsistent withreason, and merely meant to excite mirth.
ABEE.To let abee.To let alone, to bear with, not to meddle with, S.
To let be, E.
Ritson.
ABEECH, ABIEGH,adv.Aloof, "at a shy distance," chiefly used in the west of S.Stand abeigh, keep aloof.Burns.
Fr.aboy, O. Fr.abai,abay,abbais; E.at bay, O. E.abay.
ABERAND,part. pr.Going astray.
Lat.aberrans, E.aberring.
Bellenden.
ToABHOR,v. a.To fill with horror.Lyndsay.
ToABY,v. a.To suffer for.
O. E.abeye,abie. A. S.byg-an, to buy.
Henrysone.
ABIL,adj.Able.Wyntown.
Lat.habil-is, Fr.habile, C. B.abl, Teut.abel, id.
ABIL,adv.Perhaps.V.Able.
ABYLL,adj.Liable, apt.V.Abil.Bellenden.
ABITIS,s. pl.Obits, service for the dead.Bannatyne Poems.
Lat.obit-us, death; also, office for the dead.
ABLACH,s.A dwarf, an expression of contempt, S. B.Gl. Shirrefs.
Gael.abhach, id.
ABLE, ABLIS, ABLINS,adv.Perhaps, peradventure, S.Yeable-sea, id.Montgomery.
A. S.abal, Isl. and Su. G.afl, strength, properly that of the body;afl-as, to beable.
ABLINS,adv.V.Able.
ABOWYNE, ABONE, ABOW,prep.Above, S. Yorks. Westmorel.Barbour.
A. S.abufan, id. The radical term is evidentlyufan, supra.
ToABREDE,v. a.To publish, to spread abroad.Gl. Sibb.
A. S.abraed-an, propalare.
ToABREDE,v. n.To start, to fly to a side. Chauc.abraide, id.Henrysone.
ABREID, ABRADE, ABREAD,adv.Abroad, at large, S.Burel.
A. S.abred-an, extendere, or Isl.a braut, forth, in via.
ABSTINENCE,s.A truce, cessation of arms.Spotswood.
Fr. id. L. B.abstinentia.
AB-THANE, ABTHANE,s.V.Thane.
ABULYEIT, ABULYEID, ABILYEIT,part. pa.1. Drest, apparelled.Douglas.2. Equipped for the field of battle.Acts Ja. II.
Fr.habill-er, to clothe.
ABULIEMENT,s.Dress, habit; Fr.habiliment.Bellenden.
AC, EC,conj.But, and.Barbour.
A. S.aec,eac; Moes. G.auk; Alem.auh; Su. G.och,ock; Belg.ook; Lat.ac, etiam.
ACCOMIE,s.A species of metal, S.V.Alcomye.
ToACCORD. Used impersonally;as accords, oras accords of law, i. e. as is agreeable or conformable to law. It has greater latitude of signification than the phrase,as effeiris, which denotes any thing proportional, convenient, or becoming, as well as conformity.Laws of S.
ToACHERSPYRE,v. n.To shoot, to germinate, E.acrospire.Chalmerlan Air.
A. S.aechir, an ear of corn,aecer, Su. G.aakar, corn, andspira, the projection of any thing that is long and slender. Gr. ακρος, summus, and σπειρα, spira.
ACHERSPIRE,s.The germination of malt at that end of the grain from which the stalk grows, S.
ACHIL,adj.Noble.V.Athil.
ToACRES, ACRESCE,v. n.1. To increase, to gather strength.Burel.2. Used us a law term in S. to denote that one species of right, or claim, flows from, and naturally falls to be added to, its principal.
Fr.accroist-re, Lat.accrescere, id.
ToACQUEIS,v. a.To acquire.Burel.
Fr.acquis,acquise, part. pa.; Lat.acquisitus.
ACQUART, AIKWERT,adj.Cross, perverse, S.Douglas.
A. S.acwerd, aversus, perversus, E.aukward.
ACTON,s.A leathern jacket, strongly stuffed, anciently worn under a coat of mail.Stat. Rob. I.
O. Fr.auqueton,haucton, L. B.aketon,acton, id.
ACTUAL,adj.An actual minister, oran actual man, a phrase still used by the vulgar to denote one who is in full orders as a minister of the gospel, S.Wodrow.
L. B.actus, officium, ministerium.
ADDETTIT,part. pa.Indebted.Douglas.
Fr.endebté, id.
ADEW, used as anadj.Gone, departed.Douglas.
From Fr.adieu, used in an oblique sense.
ADEW,part. pa.Done.Wallace.
A. S.adoafacere,adontollere.
ADHEILL,s.The district in S. now called Athol.Barbour.
Gael.Blair-adh-oll, Blair-Atholl, expl. "the great pleasant plain."
ADDILL, ADDLE,s.1. Foul and putrid water.Douglas.2. The urine of black cattle, Renfrews.
A. S.adl, filthy gore, Teut.adel, filth, mire.
Hence,
ToADDLE,v. n.To moisten the roots of plants with the urine of cattle, Renfrews.
Su. G.adl-a, mejere.
ADIST,prep.On this side, S. It is opposed toayont, i. e. on the other side.Kelly.
Perhaps from Germ.diss. hoc, E.this.
ToADORNE,v. a.To worship, to adore.Abp. Hamiltoun.
ADRED,adv.Downright.Douglas.
Fr.adroit, ordroit, right, straight, Lat.direct-us, Rudd.
ADREICH,adv.Behind, at a distance.To follow adreich, to follow at a considerable distance, S. B.Adrigh, O. E.
From the adj.Dreich, q. v.
Bellenden.
ADREID,conj.Lest.Palice Hon.
Imper. of A. S.adraed-antimere.
ADRESLY,adv.With good address.Wyntown.
AE,adj.One, S.V.letter A.Ramsay.
AE,adv.Always; E.aye.Z. Boyd.
Isl.ae, semper, Moes. G.aiwaeternum.
AER,s.Oar.V.Air.Stat. Gild.
ToAFAYND,v. a.To attempt, to endeavour, to try.Wallace.
A. S.afand-iantentare.
AFALD, AFAULD, AEFAULD, AUFAULD, EFFAULD,adj.1. Honest, upright, without duplicity, S.2. Used to denote the unity of the divine essence in a trinity of persons.Barbour.
Moes. G.ainfalth, Isl.einfauld, A. S.anfeald, simplex. Immediately from S.aoraeone, andfaldfold.
AFF,adv.Off, S.Ross.
Moes. G. Isl. Su. G. Dan. Belg.af, Gr. απο, αφ', Alem. and Lat.ab.
Aff at the knot, lunatic, deranged, S. B.Gl. Shirrefs.Aff and on.1. Applied to those who lodge on the same floor, S.2. Without any permanent change, used in relation to the sick, S.
Aff or on, determined one way or another, as in regard to a commercial transaction, S.
AFFCAST,s.A castaway.Bruce.
Fromaffoff, andcast.
AFFCOME,s.1. The termination of any business, the reception one meets with, as, "I had an illaffcome," S.2. Sometimes used in the sense of escape, S. q. "coming off."
AFFECTUOUS,adj.Affectionate.V.Effectuous.Abp. Hamiltoun.
AFFER, AFEIR, EFFEIR, EFFERE,s.1. Condition, state.Barbour.2. Warlike preparation, equipment for war.Wallace.3. Appearance, shew.Barbour.4. Demeanour, deportment.Maitland P.V.Fair,Fere.
AFFERD,part. pa.Afraid, O. E.affered, vulgar E.afeard.Douglas.
A. S.afaered, territus.
AFFERIS, EFFEIRS,v. impers.1. Becomes, belongs to, is proper or expedient; frequently used in our laws.Barbour.2. It sometimes signifies what is proportional to, S.Acts Counc.
O. Fr.affer-ir, appartenir, Lat.affero.
AFF-HAND,adj.Plain, honest, blunt, given to free speaking. S.affin-hand, Ang.
AFF-HAND,adv.Without premeditation, S.Ramsay.
AFFLUFF, AFFLOOF,adv.1. Without book, off hand.To repeataff lufe, to deliver merely from memory, without having a book or notes, S.2. Extempore, without premeditation, S.Ramsay.
From S.aff off, andlufe, the palm of the hand.
AFFPUT,s.Delay, or pretence for delaying. S.
AFFPUTTING,adj.Delaying, trifling, dilatory,putting off, S.
AFFRAY,s.Fear, terror; Chaucer, id.
Fr.affre,effroi, terreur.
Barbour.
AFFROITLIE,adv.Affrightedly.
Fr.effroy-er, to frighten.
Douglas.
AFFSET,s.1. Dismission, the act of putting away, S.2. An excuse, a pretence, S.Ross.
Moes. G.afsat-jan, amovere.
AFFSIDE,s.The farther side of any object, S.
Su. G.afsides, seorsum.
AFLOCHT, AFLOUGHT,part. pa.Agitated, in a flutter, S.V.Flocht.Bellenden.
AFORGAYN,prep.Opposite to; the same withForegainst, q. v.Barbour.
A. S.onforan, ante, coram, andgean, contra;onbeing changed intoain S. and E., asonwegintoaway.Foran ongean, ex adverso.
AFORNENS,prep.Opposite to.V.Fore-anent.Wyntown.
AFTEN,adv.Often, S.Ramsay.
A. S.aeft, iterum.
AFTER ANE,adv.Alike, in the same manner, in one form, S. i. e.after one.
AFTER-CLAP,s.Evil consequence, S.Gl. Sibb.
AFTERHEND,adv.Afterwards.V.Eftirhend.
AFTERINGS, AFT'RINS,s. pl.The last milk taken from a cow, S. Lancash. Derbysh. id.
A. S.aefterpost.
Morison.
AGAYNE, AGANE,prep.Against, S.Wyntown.
A. S.gean,agen,ongean, Su. G.gen,igen, Isl.gegn,gen, contra.
AGAIT,adv.On the way or road.V.Gait.Wallace.
Ain the sense ofon, andgait, a way.
AGATIS,adv.In one way, uniformly.Barbour.
A, one, andgatisthe plur. or genit. of A. S.gat, a way.
AGEE, A-JEE,adv.1. To one side, S.To look agye, to look aside, Gl. Yorks.Ramsay.2. A-jar, a little open, S.Burns.
Fromaon, andjee, to move, to turn.
ToAGENT,v. a.To manage, whether in a court of law, or by interest, S.Baillie.
ToAGGRISE,v. a.To affright, to fill with horror.Agryse, Chaucer, to shudder, to make to shudder.Douglas.
A. S.agrys-an, horrere.
AGLEY, A-GLY,adv.Off the right line, obliquely, wrong, S.Burns.V.Gley.
AGRUFE,adv.In a flat or grovelling position, S.V.Grufe.
AGWET,s.The name anciently given to the hill on which the castle of Edinburgh stands.Hardyng.
Corr. from C. B.Agned,Castel mynyd Agned; perhaps, q. "the castle of the rifted mount,"agen, signifying a cliff,ageniad, id.agenedig, rifted.
AHIND, AHINT,prep.Behind, S.Buchan Poems.
A. S.hindan, post,aet hindan, a tergo,on-hinder, retrorsum.
AHIND, AHINT,adv.1. Behind, in respect of place, S.2. Late, as to time, S.3. Applied to what remains, or is left, S.Ross.
AICH,s.Echo, S. B.
AIGARS,s.Grain dried very much in a pot, for being ground in a quern or hand-mill. S. B.
Moes. G.akran, Su. G.aker, Isl.akur, corn; A. S.aecer, an ear of corn.
Hence,
AIGAR-MEAL,s.Meal made of grain dried in this manner, S.
AIGAR-BROSE,s.A sort of pottage made of this meal, S.
ToAIGH,v. a.To owe, to be indebted;aighand, owing, S. B.
Su. G.aeg-a, Isl.eig-a, debere; Moes. G.aig-an, A. S.ag-an, habere, possidere.
AIGHINS,s. pl.What is owing to one, especially used as denoting demerit. When one threatens to correct a child who is in fault, it is a common expression, "I'll gie you youraighins," S. B.
Moes. G.aigins, possession.
AIGLET,s.1. A tagged point.Gl. Sibb.2. A jewel in one's cap.Gl. Sibb.
Fr.esguilette, id. q.aculeata.
AIK, AYK,s.The oak, S. Plur.akis, oaks.Douglas.
A. S.ac,aec, Alem. Germ.eiche, Su. G.ek, Isl.eik, quercus.
AIKERIT,part. adj.Eared;weil yaikert, having full ears; applied to grain, Tweedd, Pron.yaikert.V.Aigars.
AIKRAW,s.Pitted warty lichen, L. scrobiculatus, Linn. South of S.V.Staneraw.Lightfoot.
AYLE,s.1. A projection from the body of a church, one of the wings of the transept, S.2. An inclosed and covered burial place, adjoining to a church, though not forming part of it, S.Spalding.
Moes. G. and A. S.alh, templum.
AILICKEY,s.The bridegroom's man, he who attends on the bridegroom or is employed as his messenger at a wedding, Ang.
Su. G.emarriage, andlackey, Fr.lacquay, a runner.
AIN,adj.Own, S.V.Awin.
AYND, END,s.The breath; also writtenend; A. Bor.Yane, id.Barbour.
Isl. Su. G.ande, A. S.ond, halitus, spiritus.
ToAYND, EAND,v. a.To breathe upon.Bellenden.
Isl.and-a, Su. G.and-as, respirare.
AYNDING,s.The act of breathing.Douglas.
AYNDING-STEDE,s.A breathing-place.Douglas.
AYNDLESSE,adj.Breathless, out of breath.Barbour.
AINS,adv.Once.V.Anis.
AIR, AYR, AR, ARE,adv.1. Before, formerly.Wallace.2. Early.Fell air, very early in the morning.Airer, compar.;airest, superl.Wyntown.Are morrow, early in the morning.Douglas.
Moes. G.air, A. S.aer, Alem.er, Belg.eer, ante, prius; also tempus matutinum.
AIR,adj.Early, S.Journ. Lond.
AIR,s.Expl. "hair, used for a thing of no value."Bannatyne Poems.
Isl.aur, the smallest thing imaginable.
AIR, AIRE, AYR, AYRE, AR,s.An oar; still used, S. B.Wallace.
A. S. Alem.are, Isl.aar, Dan.aere, Su. G.ara.
AIR, AIRE, AYR,s.An heir.Barbour.
Moes. G.arbi, Su. G.arf, Lat.haeres, id.
AYRSCHIP,s.Inheritance, S.Acts Ja. III.
AIR, AYRE, AYR,s.An itinerant court of justice; E.Eyre.Wallace.
Lat.iter, O. Fr.eire.
AIRN,s.Iron, S.Airns, pl. Fetters.
Isl.iarn, Su. G.iern.
V.Irne.
AIRT, ART, ARTH, AIRTH,s.1. Quarter of the heaven, point of the compass, S.Douglas.2. A particular quarter of the earth.Wallace.On every art, on every hand, on all sides.Douglas.
Gael.aird, a cardinal point; Germ.ort,wart, Belg.oorde, a place or quarter; Isl.vart, Moes. G.wairths, versus, towards.
ToAIRT, ART, ERT,v. a.1. To direct, to mark out a certain course, used with respect to the wind, as blowing from a particular quarter, S.Law Case.2. To give direction or instruction, in order to find out a certain person or place, or any other object, S.Sir J. Sinclair.3.To airt on, to urge forward, Galloway.Davidson.
AIRT and PART.V.Art.
AISLAIR,adj.Polished, S.Abp. Hamiltoun.
AISMENT, AYSYAMENT,s.Used in the same sense with E.easement, as denoting assistance, accommodation.
Fr.aisement, commodum.
Stat. Rob. I.
AIT, oat or oaten.V.Aits.Douglas.
AITS,s. pl.Oats, S.Wild aits, bearded oat-grass, S. Avena fatua, Linn.
A. S.ata,ate, avena.
AITEN,adj.Oaten, S.Ritson.
AITH, AYTHE,s.An oath.V.Athe.
AITH, or AIFTLAND,s.That kind of land calledinfield, which is made to carry oats a second time after barley, and has received no dung. Ang.
Perhaps from A. S.aeft, iterum.
AITH-HENNES,s. pl.Apparentlyheath-hens, as being bred on the heath.Skene.
AYSYAMENT,s.V.Aisment.
AIZLE,s.A hot ember.V.Eizel.
AKYN,adj.Oaken.Douglas.
ALAGUST,s.Suspicion.V.Allagust.
ALAIS,s. pl.Alleys.Wallace.
ALAK,Wallace.V.Lak.
ALAMONTI, ALLAMOTTI,s.The storm finch, Procellaria pelagica, Linn. Orkn. The same with theAssilagof St Kilda.Allamottiis the proper pronunciation.Neill.
Ital.ala, a wing, andmoto, motion.
ALANE, ALLANE,adj.Alone, S.Wyntown.
Alem.alain, Germ.allein, alone; fromallomnis, andain,ein, unus.
ALANERLIE,adv.V.Allanerly.
ALAREIT.V.Lareit.
ALARS.Alars yet, apparently, the gate overspread with alder.Palice Hon.
A. S.alr, Alem.ellra, the alder; Su. G.alar, of or belonging to the alder-tree.
ALAWE,adv.Downward, below.V.Law,Lawe.
ALBLASTRIE,s.Apparently, the exercise of the cross-bow.V.Awblaster.
ALCOMYE,s.Latten, a kind of mixed metal still used for spoons.Hence,Accomie spunes, spoons made of alchymy, S. B.Douglas.
From Fr.alquemieor O. E.alchymy.
ALD, ALDE, AULD,adj.Old, S. Yorks. O. E.ald, id.Wyntown.A. S.eald, Alem.alt, vetus; derived from A. S.eald-ian, to remain, to stay, to last, Alem.alten, to prolong.
ToALEGE,v. a.To absolve from allegiance.
Fr.alleg-er, id.
Wyntown.
ALEUIN,adj.Eleven.Complaynt S.
ALGAIT, ALGATE, ALGATIS,adv.1. Every way.Douglas.2. At all events, by all means.Douglas.
O. E.all gate, R. Brunne;all gates, Chaucer. Fromall, andgait, orgatis, i. e. all ways.
ALHALE, ALHALELY,adv.Wholly, entirely.Douglas.
Fromall, andhale,hail, whole.
ALIENARE,s.A stranger.Douglas.
Lat.alien-us.
ALYA, ALLIA, ALLYA, ALLAY,s.1. Alliance.Wallace.2. An ally.Acts Ja. VI.3. Sometimes used as a plural noun, signifying allies.Bellenden.
Fr.allie, with a Saxon termination.
ALYAND,part. pr.Keeping close together.Wallace.
Fr.alli-er, to join, to knit.
ToALYCHT,v. a.To enlighten.Douglas.
A. S.alyht-an, illuminare;alyht-nysse, illuminatio.
ALIST.To come alist.To recover from faintness or decay, applied both to animals and vegetables; to recover from a swoon, S. B.Ross.
Isl.lios, light;aliost, the dawn of day;at koma i liosi, to make manifest.
ALYTE,adv.A little.V.Lite.Lyndsay.
ALLAGRUGOUS,adj.Grim, ghastly.Journ. Lond.
Perhaps fromall, Moes. G.alla, andgruous, ghastly, q. v.
ALLAGUST,s.Suspicion.Journ. Lond.
Fr.a le goust, has a taste or smack.
ToALLAYA,v. a.To ally.Complaynt S.
Fr.alli-er.
ALLANERLIE, ALANERLY, ALLENARLY,adv.Only, solely, S.
Fromall, andanerly, only.
Reg. Maj.
ALL ANYS,adv.Together, in a state of union.Wallace.
Fromall, A. S.eall, andanes, the genit. ofanunus, q. all of one.
ALLARIS, ALLERIS, Common, universal, an old genitive used adjectively. O. E.alre, id.Wyntown.
A. S.allera, genit. pl. ofall, omnis; Belg.aller, id.
V.Aller.
ALLA-VOLIE, ALLE-VOLIE,adv.At random, S.
Fr.à la volée.
Philotus.
ALLA-VOLIE, ALLE-VOLIE,adj.Giddy, volatile; "Analle-voliechield," a volatile fellow, S.
ALLE-MEN,adj.Common, universal.Popul. Ball.
Su. G.all-maen, communis, Teut.alle-man, omnis homo,al-ghemeyn, universus.