An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 36

An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 36

_agena_, id.; also, a shoot or stalk.


AWP, WHAUP, _s._ The curlew, a bird, S.


V. ~Quhaip~.


_Gl. Sibb._


AWORTH, _adv._ "Worthily," Tytler.


_Kings Quair._


A. S. _awyrth-ian_, glorificare.


AWRO, Probably _a wro_, a corner.


_Gl. Complaynt S._


Su. G. _wra_, p.r.o.n. _wro_, angulus.


AWS, AWES, _of a mill-wheel_, _s._ The buckets or projections on the rims which receive the shock of the water as it falls, S.


_Statist. Acc._


AWSK, _s._ The newt or eft.


V. ~Ask~.


AWSOME, _adj._ Appaling, awful, S. B.


_Rutherford._


AWSTRENE, _adj._ Stern, austere.


V. ~Asterne~.


_Henrysone._


Lat. _auster-us_, or A. S. _styrn_.


AWTAYNE, _adj._ Haughty.


_Wyntown._


O. Fr. _hautain_, grand, sublime, eleve, Gl. Roquefort; from Lat.


_alt-us_.


AWTER, _s._ An altar; Chaucer, id.


O. Fr. _autiere_, Lat. _altare_.


_Barbour._


_To_ AX, _v. a._ To ask, S. _Asched_, _axede_, asked; R. Glouc.


_Ruddiman._


A. S. _ahs-ian_, _ax-ian_, interrogare.


AXIS, ACKSYS, _s. pl._ Aches, pains. _Axes_, id. Orkn.


_Kings Quair._


A. S. _aece_, dolor; _egesa_, horror; Moes. G. _agis_, terror.


AX-TREE, _s._ An axle-tree, S.


A. S. _eax_, _ex_; Alem. _ahsa_, Germ. _achse_, axis; perhaps from Isl. _ak-a_, to drive a chariot or dray, G. Andr.


AYONT, _prep._ Beyond, S.


_Ross._


A. S. _geond_ ultra, with a prefixed; or _on_, as _afield_, originally _on field_.


B


BAACH, _a._ Ungrateful to the taste.


V. ~Bauch~.


BABIE, BAWBIE, _s._ A copper coin equal to a halfpenny English, S.