An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 13
/An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 13
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. _alquemie_ or 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.
_To_ ALEGE, _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. From _all_, and _gait_, or _gatis_, i. e. all ways.
ALHALE, ALHALELY, _adv._ Wholly, entirely.
_Douglas._
From _all_, and _hale_, _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.
_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._
Fr. _allie_, with a Saxon termination.
ALYAND, _part. pr._ Keeping close together.
_Wallace._
Fr. _alli-er_, to join, to knit.
_To_ ALYCHT, _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.