قراءة كتاب An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals
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An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals
class="half">Fr. abass-ir, id.
ABAITMENT, s. Diversion, sport.
Douglas.
Arm. ebat-a ludere, ebat ludus; O. Fr. ebaud-ir recreare, ebattement recreatio.
ABAK, adv. Back, behind; Chaucer, id.
Douglas.
Isl. aabak, retrorsum, A. S. on baec, id.
ABANDOUN. In abandoun, at abandoun, at random.
Barbour.
Chaucer uses bandon as denoting free will, pleasure.
Fr. en ábandon, à l'ábandon, id. from à, ban, and donner, to give up to interdiction.
To ABANDON, v. a.
1. To bring under absolute subjection.
Barbour.
2. To let loose, to give permission to act at pleasure.
Wallace.
3. To destroy, to cut off.
Wallace.
Fr. abandonn-er, id.
ABANDONLY, adv. At random, without regard to danger.
Wallace.
ABASIT, part. pa. Confounded, abashed.
Douglas.
ABATE, s. Accident; something that surprises one, as being unexpected.
King's Quair.
Fr. abatt-re, to daunt, to overthrow; or abet-ir, stupidum, hebet-em, reddere.
To ABAW.
V. Abay.
ABBEIT, s. Dress, apparel, O. E. abite.
Bannatyne Poems.
Arm. abyt, abyta, Lat. habit-us, Fr. habit, id.
ABBACY, ABBASY, s. An abbey.
L. B. abatia, id.
Acts. Ja. III.
ABBOT OF UNREASON, a sort of histrionic character, anciently exhibited in Scotland, but afterwards forbidden by Act of Parliament.
Acts Marie.
This was one of the Christmas sports; and, as the ancient Saturnalia levelled all distinction of ranks, the design of this amusement was to ridicule the solemnity of the proceedings of an Abbot, or other dignified clergyman. It is the same with the Abbot of Misrule, and distinguished in name only from the Boy-Bishop, characters formerly well known both in England and in France. The principal personage was denominated the Abbot of Unreason, because his actings were inconsistent with reason, and merely meant to excite mirth.
ABEE. To let abee. To let alone, to bear with, not to meddle with, S.
To let be, E.
Ritson.
ABEECH, ABIEGH, adv. Aloof, "at a shy distance," chiefly used in the west of S.
Stand abeigh, keep aloof.
Burns.
Fr. aboy, O. Fr. abai, abay, abbais; E. at bay, O. E. abay.
ABERAND, part. pr. Going astray.
Lat. aberrans, E. aberring.
Bellenden.
To ABHOR, v. a. To fill with horror.
Lyndsay.
To ABY, v. a. To suffer for.
O. E. abeye, abie. A. S. byg-an, to buy.
Henrysone.
Lat. habil-is, Fr. habile, C. B. abl, Teut. abel, id.
ABIL, adv. Perhaps.
V. Able.
ABYLL, adj. Liable, apt.
V. Abil.
Bellenden.
ABITIS, s. pl. Obits, service for the dead.
Bannatyne Poems.
Lat. obit-us, death; also, office for the dead.
ABLACH, s. A dwarf, an expression of contempt, S. B.
Gl. Shirrefs.
Gael. abhach, id.
ABLE, ABLIS, ABLINS, adv. Perhaps, peradventure, S. Yeable-sea, id.
Montgomery.
A. S. abal, Isl. and Su. G. afl, strength, properly that of the body; afl-as, to be able.
ABLINS, adv.
V. Able.
ABOWYNE, ABONE, ABOW, prep. Above, S. Yorks. Westmorel.
Barbour.
A. S. abufan, id. The radical term is evidently ufan, supra.
To ABREDE, v. a. To publish, to spread abroad.
Gl. Sibb.
A. S. abraed-an, propalare.
To ABREDE, v. n. To start, to fly to a side. Chauc. abraide, id.
Henrysone.
ABREID, ABRADE, ABREAD, adv. Abroad, at large, S.
Burel.
A. S. abred-an, extendere, or Isl. a braut, forth, in via.
ABSTINENCE, s. A truce, cessation of arms.
Spotswood.
Fr. id. L. B. abstinentia.
AB-THANE, ABTHANE, s.
V. Thane.
ABULYEIT, ABULYEID, ABILYEIT, part. pa.
1. Drest, apparelled.
Douglas.
2. Equipped for the field of battle.
Acts Ja. II.
Fr. habill-er, to clothe.
ABULIEMENT, s. Dress, habit; Fr. habiliment.
Bellenden.
AC, EC, conj. But, and.
Barbour.