An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language - LightNovelsOnl.com
You're reading novel online at LightNovelsOnl.com. Please use the follow button to get notifications about your favorite novels and its latest chapters so you can come back anytime and won't miss anything.
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."
