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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="bigtop">AFFECTUOUS, adj. Affectionate.
V. Effectuous.
Abp. Hamiltoun.
AFFER, AFEIR, EFFEIR, EFFERE, s.
1. Condition, state.
Barbour.
2. Warlike preparation, equipment for war.
Wallace.
3. Appearance, shew.
Barbour.
4. Demeanour, deportment.
Maitland P.
V. Fair, Fere.
AFFERD, part. pa. Afraid, O. E. affered, vulgar E. afeard.
Douglas.
A. S. afaered, territus.
AFFERIS, EFFEIRS, v. impers.
1. Becomes, belongs to, is proper or expedient; frequently used in our laws.
Barbour.
2. It sometimes signifies what is proportional to, S.
Acts Counc.
O. Fr. affer-ir, appartenir, Lat. affero.
AFF-HAND, adj. Plain, honest, blunt, given to free speaking. S. affin-hand, Ang.
AFF-HAND, adv. Without premeditation, S.
Ramsay.
AFFLUFF, AFFLOOF, adv.
1. Without book, off hand.
To repeat aff lufe, to deliver merely from memory, without having a book or notes, S.
2. Extempore, without premeditation, S.
Ramsay.
From S. aff off, and lufe, the palm of the hand.
AFFPUT, s. Delay, or pretence for delaying. S.
AFFPUTTING, adj. Delaying, trifling, dilatory, putting off, S.
AFFRAY, s. Fear, terror; Chaucer, id.
Fr. affre, effroi, terreur.
Barbour.
AFFROITLIE, adv. Affrightedly.
Fr. effroy-er, to frighten.
Douglas.
AFFSET, s.
1. Dismission, the act of putting away, S.
2. An excuse, a pretence, S.
Ross.
Moes. G. afsat-jan, amovere.
AFFSIDE, s. The farther side of any object, S.
Su. G. afsides, seorsum.
AFLOCHT, AFLOUGHT, part. pa. Agitated, in a flutter, S.
V. Flocht.
Bellenden.
AFORGAYN, prep. Opposite to; the same with Foregainst, q. v.
Barbour.
A. S. onforan, ante, coram, and gean, contra; on being changed into ain S. and E., as onweg into away. Foran ongean, ex adverso.
AFORNENS, prep. Opposite to.
V. Fore-anent.
Wyntown.
AFTEN, adv. Often, S.
Ramsay.
A. S. aeft, iterum.
AFTER ANE, adv. Alike, in the same manner, in one form, S. i. e. after one.
AFTER-CLAP, s. Evil consequence, S.
Gl. Sibb.
AFTERHEND, adv. Afterwards.
V. Eftirhend.
AFTERINGS, AFT'RINS, s. pl. The last milk taken from a cow, S. Lancash. Derbysh. id.
A. S. aefter post.
Morison.
AGAYNE, AGANE, prep. Against, S.
Wyntown.
A. S. gean, agen, ongean, Su. G. gen, igen, Isl. gegn, gen, contra.
AGAIT, adv. On the way or road.
V. Gait.
Wallace.
A in the sense of on, and gait, a way.
AGATIS, adv. In one way, uniformly.
Barbour.
A, one, and gatis the plur. or genit. of A. S. gat, a way.
AGEE, A-JEE, adv.
1. To one side, S.
To look agye, to look aside, Gl. Yorks.
Ramsay.
2. A-jar, a little open, S.
Burns.
From a on, and jee, to move, to turn.
To AGENT, v. a. To manage, whether in a court of law, or by interest, S.
Baillie.
To AGGRISE, v. a. To affright, to fill with horror. Agryse, Chaucer, to shudder, to make to shudder.
Douglas.
A. S. agrys-an, horrere.
AGLEY, A-GLY, adv. Off the right line, obliquely, wrong, S.
Burns.
V. Gley.
AGRUFE, adv. In a flat or grovelling position, S.
V. Grufe.
AGWET, s. The name anciently given to the hill on which the castle of Edinburgh stands.
Hardyng.
Corr. from C. B. Agned, Castel mynyd Agned; perhaps, q. "the castle of the rifted mount," agen, signifying a cliff, ageniad, id. agenedig, rifted.
AHIND, AHINT, prep. Behind, S.
Buchan Poems.
A. S.