An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 5
/An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 5
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 lat.i.tude 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.
a????, summus, and spe??a, spira.
ACHERSPIRE, _s._ The germination of malt at that end of the grain from which the stalk grows, S.
ACHIL, _adj._ n.o.ble.
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 princ.i.p.al.
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.
ADDETt.i.t, _part. pa._ Indebted.
_Douglas._
Fr. _endebte_, 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."