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.