An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 23

An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 23

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 n.i.g.g.ardliness, 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_, a.s.sequi, 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.


_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._


_To_ ARGH, _v. n._ To hesitate.


V. ~Arch~, and ~Ergh~, _v._


ARGIE, _s._ a.s.sertion 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._