An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 31
/An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 31
2. An ill-natured person; one of a virulent or malignant disposition, S.
A. S. _atter-coppe_, _atter-coppa_, aranea, from _atter_ venenum, and _coppe_ calix, q. "a _cup_ full of _venom_;" like Isl. _eitrorm_ a serpent, i. e. "a poisonous worm."
ATTOUR, _prep._
V. ~Atour~.
ATWEESH, _prep._ Between.
_Shirrefs._
Franc. _tuisc_, _entuishan_, Belg. _tuschen_, inter.
AVA, _adv._ At all, S.
_Ross._
Corr. from _af_ or _of_, and _all_.
AVAILL, _s._ Abas.e.m.e.nt, humiliation.
_Dunbar._
Fr. _aval-er_, _avall-er_, to fall down; _aval_, en descendant, au bas, en bas; _ad vall-em_; Gl. Roquefort.
_To_ AUALE, _v. n._ To descend.
V. ~Availl~.
_Douglas._
AUANT, AWANT, _s._ Boast, vaunt; Chaucer, id.
_Douglas._
AVANTCURRIER, _s._ One of the fore-runners of an army, the same perhaps that are now called picquet-guards.
_G.o.dscroft._
Fr. _avantcoureur_, from _avant_ before, and _courir_ to run.
AUCHINDORAS, _s._ A large thorn-tree at the end of a house; Fife.
AUCHLIT, _s._ Two stones weight, or a peck measure, being half of the Kirkcudbright bushel; Galloway.
AUCHT, AWCHT, (gutt.) _pret._ of Aw.
1. Possessed. _Auht_, id. R. Brunne.
_Wyntown._
2. Owed, was indebted, id. R. Brunne.
_Wyntown._
AUCHT, (gutt.) _v. imp._ Ought, should.
_Douglas._
_Auchten_ occurs in the same sense.
_Douglas._
A. S. _aht-on_, the third pers. plur. pret. of A. S. _ag-an_, possidere.
AUCHT, _s._ Possession, property; what is exclusively ones own. _In aw my aucht_, in my possession, viewed at its utmost extent, S.
V. ~Best Aucht~.
_Bannatyne Poems._
A. S. _aht_; Moes. G. _aigin_, _aihn_, peculiaris ac propria possessio.
AUCHT, (gutt.) _adj._ Eight, S. _auhte_, O. E. id. R. Brunne.
_Wyntown._
Moes. G. _aht-au_, A. S. _eaht-a_, Germ. _aht_, Belg. _acht_, Isl.
and Su. G. _att-a_, Gael. _ocht_, Lat. _oct-o_.
AUCHTAND, AUCHTEN, _adj._ The eighth. Isl. _aatunde_, octavus.
_Douglas._