An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language - LightNovelsOnl.com
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_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. _hindan_, post, _aet hindan_, a tergo, _on-hinder_, retrorsum.
AHIND, AHINT, _adv._
1. Behind, in respect of place, S.
2. Late, as to time, S.
3. Applied to what remains, or is left, S.
_Ross._
AICH, _s._ Echo, S. B.
AIGARS, _s._ Grain dried very much in a pot, for being ground in a quern or hand-mill. S. B.
Moes. G. _akran_, Su. G. _aker_, Isl. _akur_, corn; A. S. _aecer_, an ear of corn.
Hence,
AIGAR-MEAL, _s._ Meal made of grain dried in this manner, S.
AIGAR-BROSE, _s._ A sort of pottage made of this meal, S.
To AIGH, _v. a._ To owe, to be indebted; _aighand_, owing, S. B.
Su. G. _aeg-a_, Isl. _eig-a_, debere; Moes. G. _aig-an_, A. S.
_ag-an_, habere, possidere.
AIGHINS, _s. pl._ What is owing to one, especially used as denoting demerit. When one threatens to correct a child who is in fault, it is a common expression, "I'll gie you your _aighins_," S. B.
Moes. G. _aigins_, possession.
