AGUE-TREE, 8. The sassafras. Gerard. AGUERRY, V. (Fr.) To discipline and make warlike. AGUILER, S. (4.-N. aguillier.) A needle-case. A silvir nedil forth I drowe, AGUISE. See Agguise. AGYE, (1) v. To guide; to govern. See Gie. (2) adv. Aside; askew. North. AGYNNE, v. (4.-S.) To begin. Thou wendest that ich wrohte Aн. (1) I. Yorksh. Kyng Horn, 1285. Анон, adv. (A.-S. awoh.) All on A-HOLD, adv. To lay a ship a-hold, Lyric Poetry, p. 46. (2) pret. t. Ought. And sethe he reignede her Chronicle of England, 416. АнUн, adv. What men should scale the walles of the cytie of Worcestre, and who should kepe the passages for lettyng of reskewes and aiders. Hall, Henry VII, f. 4. AIDLE,V. To addle; to earn. North. AIE, S. (A.-S.) An egg. And for the tithing of a ducke, Urry's Chaucer, p. 185. AIEL, S. (4.-N.) A forefather. AIG, (1) 8. (A.-S.) A haw. Lanc. silver tinsel ornamenting the (2) s. An icicle. Midl. Counties. AIGRE, adj. (A.-N.) Sour; acid. Yorksh. See Egre. AIGREEN, 8. The house-leek. Kersey. AIGULET, S. The clasp of a buckle. AIK, 8. An oak. North. (2) s. An indisposition. AILE, (1) 8. A writ that lieth where the grandfather, or greatgrandfather was seised in his demaines as of fee, of any land or tenement in fee simple, the day that he died, and a stranger abateth or entreth the same day and dispossesseth the heir. Cowell. (2) s. (A.-N.) A wing, or part of a building flanking another. AILETTES, 8. (A.-N.) Small plates of steel placed on the shoulders in ancient armour, introduced under Edward I. AILS, S. (A-S.) Beards of corn. Essex. "The eiles or beard upon the eare of corne." Hollyband. AIM, V. (A.-N.) (1) To intend; to conjecture. Yorksh. Shakespeare has it as a substantive in the same sense in the Two Gent. of Verona, in, 1. like Cassius, Sits sadly dumping, aiming Caesar's death. Greene's Orlando Furioso, 1594. (2) To aim at. (3) To give aim," to stand within a convenient distance from the butts, for the purpose of informing the archers how near their arrows fell to the mark. Metaphorically, to direct. (4) "To cry aim," in archery, to encourage the archers by crying out aim, when they were about to shoot. Hence, to applaud, to encourage, in a general sense. (5) To attempt. Yorksh. AIM-CRIER, S. A stander-by, who encouraged the archers by exclamations. Hence used for an abettor or encourager. While her own creatures, like aim-criers, beheld her mischance with nothing but lip-pity. English Arcadia. AIN, (1) adj. (A.-S.) Own. North. O then bespy'd her ain dear lord, As he cam owre the see, &c. Percy's Reliques. (2) s. pl. (A.-S.) Eyes. AINCE, adv. Once. North. AINOGE, adv. Anew. Rob. Glouc. AINT, v. To anoint. Figuratively, to beat. Suffolk. (2) s. (A.-N.) An heir. MS. Ashmole, xxxiii, f. 46. (3) Appearance. AIR-DEW, S. An old name for manna. AIR-DRAWN, adj. Drawn in the air; a creature of the imagination. This is the very painting of your fear; This is the air-drawn dagger, which said Led you to Duncan. Macbeth, iii, 4. AIRE. S. An aerie of hawks. See Aerie. With dogs and horses. Jonson's Catiline, i, 3. AIRMS, s. pl. Arms. A Yorkshire word. Hur neeaked airms teea she lik'd te show, E'en when t' cawd bitter wind did blaw. The Yorkshire Dialect, 1839, p. 13. AIRN, (1) 8. Iron. Maundevile's Travels. (2) v. To earn. Wilts. (3) Either of them (e'er a one). Northamptonsh. AIRSTONES, 8. pl. Stones fallen from the air; meteoric stones. They talk of divers prodigies, as well in these parts as in Holland, but specially airstones; the bell in his house doth often ring out two or three hours together when nobody is near it, and when it is expressly watched; and the grates and bars of his windows are continually hammered and battered, as if there were a smith's forge, which hath almost put him out of his wits. Letter, dated 1608. AIRT, 8. (answering the Germ. ort.) A point of the compass. North. AIRTH, adj. Afraid. Airthful, fearful. North. AIRY. An eagle's nest; also used for the brood of young in the nest. See Aerie. AISE, S. (A.-N.) (1) Ease. (2) The plant axweed. Skinner. AISH, 8. Stubble; as wheat, or oat aish, i. e. wheat or oat stubble. Grose gives this as a Hampshire word. AISIELICHE, adv. Easily. AISIL, s. (A-.S. aisil or eisil.) Vinegar; or at least a sort of vinegar. In two AYSEL ASEL, receipts in the Forme of Cury, Agnus Castus soden with fenell in asell She was like thing for hungir ded, There I auntrede me in, Piers Pl., p. 471. AISNECIA, S. (from A.-N. aisné.) extra-allowance given to labourers at that season. Northampt. AISTRE, s. (A.-N. aistre, or, as it ESTRE, is very commonly written, estre.) A house; the parts or conditions of a house; its apartments; also, condition, life. The old French phrase, savoir l'aistre, which is interpreted connaitre tous les réduits d'une maison, will help to explain its application in some of the English extracts. It is still in common use in Staffordshire, Shropshire, and, probably, in most of the Midland Counties, for the fire-place; the back of the fire; or the fire itself. In the early writers the form estre is the more common. Of tresour and of lordschyp Hist. of Beryn., 1. 105. Fyrst by hys subtyll compassyng AIT, S. (A.-S.) A little island in a river. AITCH, 8. (A.-S.) An ach, or pain; a paroxysm in an intermitting disorder. Var. dial. AITCH-BONE S. The edge-bone (os innominatum). Var. dial. AITCHORNING, S. Gathering acorns; acorning. Chesh. AITH, S. (4.-S. að.) An oath. AITHE, 8. Swearing. North. (2) Each. "Aw so three greet hee fellows cummin up t' loanin, an' aither o' them had a great big stick iv 'is hand." Westmoreland and Cumberland Dialects, p. 323. (3) s. (A.-S.) A ploughing. North. AITS, 8. Oats. North. AIXES, 8. (4.-S.) An ague. Grose gives this as a Northumberland word, and Brockett explains it, "a fit or paroxysm of an ague." AIYAH, S. The fat about the kidney of veal or mutton. Suffolk. AJAR, adv. This word sometimes figuratively used for confusing, clashing, or shaking. Its usual meaning is applied to a door partly opened. AJAX. Pronounced Ajax (with the a long.) Sir John Harrington, in 1596, published a celebrated tract, called "The Metamorphosis of Ajax," by which he meant the improvement of a jakes, or privy, by forming it into what we now call a water-closet, of which Sir John was clearly the inventor. The book was an offence to delicacy, for which Queen Elizabeth kept him for some time in disgrace. Probably from this circumstance, the writers of the Shakespearian age were continually playing on this name, by taking it in the sense given to it by Harrington. A stool were better, sir, of Sir Ajax his invention. B. Jon., Epic., iv, 5. But, for his wit no matter much it wakes, Whether he sits at the boord, or on Ajax. Davies, Scourge of Folly, 1611. Adoring Stercutio for a god, no lesse unwoorthily then shamfully constituting him a patron and protector of Ajax and his commodities. Hosp. of Incurab. Fooles, p. 6. Inquire, if you understand it not, of Cloacina's chaplains, or such as are well read in Ajax. Camden, Remains, p. 117. AJEE, adv. Awry; uneven. Var. dial. AJUGGEDE, part. p. Adjudged; judged. AK, conj. (A.-S. ac.) But. Acton. See AKELE, v. (A.-S. acelan.) To cool. The kyng hyre fader was old man, and drou to feblesse, And the anguysse of hys dogter hym dude more destresse, And akelde hym wel the more, so that feble noitre; to discover. AKER, (1) s. (A.-S. acer.) An acre; a field. Thanne tweyne schulen be in an aker, oon schal be take, and an other left. Matthew, c. xxiv, Wyckliffe's version. (2) s. An acorn. South. AKER-LOND, s. Cultivated land. AKERMAN, 8. A husbandman. AKETHER, adv. Indeed. Devon. AKEVERE, V. (A.-N.) To recover. AKEWARD, adv. Wrongly. See Acward. AKINNANCE, adv. On one side; askaunce. Dorset. AKKER, v. (A.-S.) To shake, or tremble. Northamptonsh. AKKERD, adj. Awkward. Nor AKNEN, knees; kneeling. AKNEWES,. On faint or fall down from weakness; to fell, or strike down. ALACRIOUS, adj. (Lat.) Gay ; joyful. A-LADY, S. Lady-day. Suffolk. ALAMIRE, S. The lowest note but one in the scale of music of Guido Aretine. ALAMODE, S. (Fr.) A kind of taffetas. ALAMORT, adj. (Fr.) Half dead; in a dying state; drooping. Whose soft and royal treatment may suffice, To heal the sick, to cheer the alamort. Sometimes written all amort. ALAND, adv. On land; to land. Where, as ill fortune would, the Dane with fresh supplies Was lately come aland. ALAND, ALAN, Drayton's Polyolbion. 8. (A.-N. alan, alant.) Aboute his chare wente white alaunz, Bourchier's Froissart, b. iv, c. 24. ALANDE, v. (from the adv.) To land. |