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# An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals ### By Jamieson, John
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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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. * * * * A number of words for which a cross-reference is cited do not * * in fact appear in the dictionary. A full list is included in * * the Transcriber's Notes. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
AN
ETYMOLOGICAL
DICTIONARY
_OF THE_
SCOTTISH LANGUAGE.
AN
ETYMOLOGICAL
DICTIONARY
OF THE
SCOTTISH LANGUAGE;
IN WHICH
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,
AND
DEDUCED FROM THEIR ORIGINALS.
_ABRIDGED FROM THE QUARTO EDITION,_
BY THE AUTHOR,
JOHN JAMIESON, D. D.
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH, OF THE SOCIETY OF THE ANTIQUARIES OF SCOTLAND, AND OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY.
EDINBURGH:
PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY, AND ALEXANDER JAMESON, EDINBURGH, _By Abernethy & Walker._
1818.
PREFACE.
~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.
As many, 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.
He has followed the same plan with that of the abridgment of Dr ~Johnson~'s English Dictionary; in giving all the terms contained in the larger work, in their various significations, the names of the writers by 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.
While this 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.
In most 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. }
_An Explanation of the Contractions used in this Work._
_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._ or _q._ 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.
_Rules for rendering the use of this Dictionary more easy._
Y vowel, used by our ancient writers promiscuously with _i_, being in fact only double _i_, and printed _ij_ in other northern languages, is to be sought for, not as it stands in the English alphabet, but in the same place with the letter _i_, 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 with _Z_, to be looked for under Y consonant.
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AN ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE SCOTTISH LANGUAGE.
A
The letter A has, in the Scottish language, four different sounds:
1. _A_ broad, as in E. _all_, _wall_. _U_ is often added, as in _cald_, cold, written also _cauld_; and sometimes _w_; both as marks of the prolongation of the sound.
2. _A_ short, in _lak_, _mak_, _tak_, S. as in _last_, _past_, E.
3. _A_ open, in _dad_, _daddie_, a father, and some other words, S. as in E. _read_ pret., _ready_ adj.
4. _A_ slender or close, in _lane_, _alane_, alone, _mane_, moan, S. like _face_, _place_, E. The monosyllables have generally, although not always, a final _e_ quiescent.
_A_ is used in many words instead of _o_ in E.; as _ane_, _bane_, _lang_, _sang_, _stane_, for _one_, _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 of _ee_ or _ei_ prevails, instead of _ai_, in various words of this formation. _Ane_, _bane_, _stane_, &c. are pronounced _ein_, _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, as _a'_, it is meant to intimate that the double _l_ is cut off, according to the pronunciation of Scotland. But this is merely of modern use.
_A_ is sometimes prefixed to words, both in S. and old E., where it makes no alteration of the sense; as _abade_, delay, which has precisely the same meaning with _bade_. This seems to have been borrowed from the A. S., in which language _abidan_ and _bidan_ are perfectly synonymous, both simply signifying, to remain, to tarry.
_A_, in composition, sometimes signifies _on_; as _agrufe_, on the _grufe_ or belly, S.; Isl. _a grufu_, cernuè, pronè. Johnson thinks that _a_, in the composition of such E. words as _aside_, _afoot_, _asleep_, is sometimes contracted from _at_. But these _terms_ are unquestionably equivalent to _on side_, _on foot_, _on sleep_; on being used, in the room of _a_, by ancient writers.
_A_ is used, by our oldest writers, in the sense of _one_. 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 which _ae_ is vulgarly used.
ABAD, ABADE, ABAID, _s._ Delay, abiding, tarrying; the same with ~Bad~, ~Bade~. A. S. _abid-an_, manere.
_Wallace._
ABAID, _part. pa._ Waited, expected.
A. S. _abad_, expectatus.
_Douglas._
_To_ ABAY, ABAW, _v. a._ To astonish. _Abayd_, part. pa. astonished; _abawed_, Chaucer.
Fr. _esbah-ir_, id.
_K. Hart._
_To_ ABAYS, _v. a._ To abash, to confound. _Abaysyd_, part. pa.
_Wyntown._
Fr. _abass-ir_, id.
ABAITMENT, _s._ Diversion, sport.
_Douglas._
Arm. _ebat-a_ ludere, _ebat_ ludus; O. Fr. _ebaud-ir_ recreare, _ebattement_ recreatio.
ABAK, _adv._ Back, behind; Chaucer, id.
_Douglas._
Isl. _aabak_, retrorsum, A. S. _on baec_, id.
ABANDOUN. _In abandoun_, _at abandoun_, at random.
_Barbour._
Chaucer uses _bandon_ as denoting free will, pleasure.
Fr. _en ábandon_, _à l'ábandon_, id. from _à_, _ban_, and _donner_, to give up to interdiction.
_To_ ABANDON, _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; or _abet-ir_, stupidum, _hebet_-em, reddere.
_To_ ABAW.
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 ancient _Saturnalia_ levelled 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 the _Abbot of Misrule_, and distinguished in name only from the _Boy-Bishop_, characters formerly well known both in England and in France. The principal personage was denominated the _Abbot of Unreason_, because his
## actings were inconsistent with _reason_, 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._
_To_ ABHOR, _v. a._ To fill with horror.
_Lyndsay._
_To_ ABY, _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 be _able_.
ABLINS, _adv._
V. ~Able~.
ABOWYNE, ABONE, ABOW, _prep._ Above, S. Yorks. Westmorel.
_Barbour._
A. S. _abufan_, id. The radical term is evidently _ufan_, supra.
_To_ ABREDE, _v. a._ To publish, to spread abroad.
_Gl. Sibb._
A. S. _abraed-an_, propalare.
_To_ ABREDE, _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~.
_To_ ACCORD. Used impersonally; _as accords_, or _as 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._
_To_ ACHERSPYRE, _v. n._ To shoot, to germinate, E. _acrospire_.
_Chalmerlan Air._
A. S. _aechir_, an ear of corn, _aecer_, Su. G. _aakar_, corn, and _spira_, 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~.
_To_ ACRES, 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.
_To_ ACQUEIS, _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_, or _an 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 an _adj._ Gone, departed.
_Douglas._
From Fr. _adieu_, used in an oblique sense.
ADEW, _part. pa._ Done.
_Wallace._
A. S. _adoa_ facere, _adon_ tollere.
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,
_To_ ADDLE, _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 to _ayont_, i. e. on the other side.
_Kelly._
Perhaps from Germ. _diss_. hoc, E. _this_.
_To_ ADORNE, _v. a._ To worship, to adore.
_Abp. Hamiltoun._
ADRED, _adv._ Downright.
_Douglas._
Fr. _adroit_, or _droit_, 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-an_ timere.
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. _aiw_ aeternum.
AER, _s._ Oar.
V. ~Air~.
_Stat. Gild._
_To_ AFAYND, _v. a._ To attempt, to endeavour, to try.
_Wallace._
A. S. _afand-ian_ tentare.
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. _a_ or _ae_ one, and _fald_ fold.
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._
From _aff_ off, and _cast_.
AFFCOME, _s._
1. The termination of any business, the reception one meets with, as, "I had an ill _affcome_," 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 repeat _aff lufe_, to deliver merely from memory, without having a book or notes, S.
2. Extempore, without premeditation, S.
_Ramsay._
From S. _aff off_, and _lufe_, 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 with ~Foregainst~, q. v.
_Barbour._
A. S. _onforan_, ante, coram, and _gean_, contra; _on_ being changed into _a_ in S. and E., as _onweg_ into _away_. _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. _aefter_ post.
_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._
_A_ in the sense of _on_, and _gait_, a way.
AGATIS, _adv._ In one way, uniformly.
_Barbour._
_A_, one, and _gatis_ the 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._
From _a_ on, and _jee_, to move, to turn.
_To_ AGENT, _v. a._ To manage, whether in a court of law, or by interest, S.
_Baillie._
_To_ AGGRISE, _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.
To AIGH, _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 your _aighins_," 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.