class="etym">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 latitude 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. ακρος, summus, and σπειρα, spira.

ACHERSPIRE, s. The germination of malt at that end of the grain from which the stalk grows, S.

ACHIL, adj. Noble.
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 principal.

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.

ADDETTIT, part. pa. Indebted.
Douglas.

Fr. endebté, 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."

ADDILL, ADDLE, s.
 1. Foul and putrid water.
Douglas.
 2. The urine of black cattle, Renfrews.

A. S. adl, filthy gore, Teut. adel, filth, mire.

Hence,

To ADDLE, v. n. To moisten the roots of plants with the urine of cattle, Renfrews.

Su. G. adl-a, mejere.

ADIST, prep. On this side, S. It is opposed to ayont, i. e. on the other side.
Kelly.

Perhaps from Germ. diss. hoc, E. this.

To ADORNE, v. a. To worship, to adore.
Abp. Hamiltoun.

ADRED, adv. Downright.
Douglas.

Fr. adroit, or droit, right, straight, Lat. direct-us, Rudd.

ADREICH, adv. Behind, at a distance.
To follow adreich, to follow at a considerable distance, S. B. Adrigh, O. E.

From the adj. Dreich, q. v.

Bellenden.

ADREID, conj. Lest.
Palice Hon.

Imper. of A. S. adraed-an timere.

ADRESLY, adv. With good address.
Wyntown.

AE, adj. One, S.
V. letter A.
Ramsay.

AE, adv. Always; E. aye.
Z. Boyd.

Isl. ae, semper, Moes. G. aiw aeternum.

AER, s. Oar.
V. Air.
Stat. Gild.

To AFAYND, v. a. To attempt, to endeavour, to try.
Wallace.

A. S. afand-ian tentare.

AFALD, AFAULD, AEFAULD, AUFAULD, EFFAULD, adj.
 1. Honest, upright, without duplicity, S.
 2. Used to denote the unity of the divine essence in a trinity of persons.
Barbour.

Moes. G. ainfalth, Isl. einfauld, A. S. anfeald, simplex.  Immediately from S. a or ae one, and fald fold.

AFF, adv. Off, S.
Ross.

Moes. G.  Isl.  Su. G.  Dan.  Belg. af, Gr. απο, αφ', Alem. and Lat. ab.

Aff at the knot, lunatic, deranged, S. B.
Gl. Shirrefs.
Aff and on.
 1. Applied to those who lodge on the same floor, S.
 2. Without any permanent change, used in relation to the sick, S.

Aff or on, determined one way or another, as in regard to a commercial transaction, S.

AFFCAST, s. A castaway.
Bruce.

From aff off, and cast.

AFFCOME, s.
 1. The termination of any business, the reception one meets with, as, "I had an ill affcome," S.
 2. Sometimes used in the sense of escape, S. q. "coming off."