ATH, (1) s. (4.-S. að.) An oath. Thai token ath tulke; ATHALDE, ATHELDE, ATHOLDE, Pol. Songs, p. 296. v. (A.-S.) To withhold; to keep; to retain. Pret. atheld, and athuld. Rob. Glouc. Gy of Warwike, p. 60. Gwider, our kyng of this lond, ys truage athuld sone. Rob. Glouc., p. 62. ATHANOR, 8. A digesting furnace; an alchemical term. And se thy fornace be apt therfore, Ashmole's Theat. Chem., p. 149. A'THATTENS, adv. In that manner. A'thissens, in this manner. Leic. Northampt. ATHEL, adj. (A.-S.) Noble. Forthi for fantoum and fayryze Gawayn & the Gr. Knyght, 1. 440. ATHELISTE, adj. Most noble. Thane syr Arthure one erthe, Atheliste of othere, At evene at his awene borde Morte Arthure. ATHENE, v. (A.-S. apenian.) To stretch out. Athening, s. Extension. Lydgate. ATHEOLOGIAN, 8. (Gr.) One who is the opposite to a theologian. Seeke the ground meete for your purpose, and then take an astrolobe, and hang that upon your thombe by the ring, and then turne the athilleyday or rule with the sights up and downe, untill that you doo see the marke. Bourne's Inventions, 1578. ATHIN, prep. Within. Var. dial. ATHINKEN, v. (A.-S.) To repent. Soore it me a-thynketh For the dede that I have doon. Piers Pl., p. 374. A-THIS-SIDE. On this side. Var. dial. ATHOG, conj. As though. ATHOLDE, v. See Athalde. ATHOUT, prep. Without. Somerset. ATHRANG, adv. In a throng. ATHRE, adv. (A.-S.) In three ATHREO, parts. ATHREP, adv. (4.-S.) With torture; cruelly. Heo hire awarieth al athrep, ATHRINE, v. To touch. Verstegan. the middle, so that the two ends become the middle or the breadth, and the middle or breadth makes the two ends. Devon. ATHYT, part. p. Conditioned? No storing of pasture, with baggedgly tyt, With ragged, with aged, and evel athyt. Tusser, ed 1573. ATIL, S. (A.-N.) Furniture; necessary supplies. Rob. Glouc. ATILE, V. (A.-N. attiler.) To equip ; to supply with necessary stores. Used frequently by Rob. of Glouc. ATILT, (1) adv. At a tilt; in the manner of a tilter. (2) v. To tilt. ATIRE, V. (4.-N.) To prepare; to fit out. What dos the kyng of France? atires him gode navie Tille Inglond, o chance to wynne it with A pavillon of honour, with riche atisfement, Indian-gown man. Fine morning gowns, Shadwell, Bury Fair, 1689. ATLE, v. To array; to arrange. See Ettle. Dol. Goodman death! goodman bones! Host. Thou atomy, thou! 2 Hen. IV, v, 4. It is also used in the provincial dialects of several of the Northern counties. Our Jwohnny's just turn'd till a parfet atomy, Nowther works, eats, drinks, or sleeps as he sud. Anderson's Cumb. Ball., p, 98. As I protest, they must ha' dissected and made an anatomy o' me first, &c. Ben Jonson, i, 101. ATONE, v. (1) To agree. He and Aufidius can no more atone Shakesp., Coriol., iv, 6. Sone thei were at-one, with wille at on At fewe wordes thai ben at-one, Shakesp., 2 Hen. IV, iv, 1. Since your happiness, As you will have it, has alone dependence Upon her favour, from my soul I wish you A fair atonement. Massing., D. of Milan, iv, 3. ATOP, adv. and prep. On the top; upon. In modern dialects it is accompanied by of or on. The buzzar is very ordinary; 'tis covered atop to keep out the searching beames of the scortching sunne. Herbert's Travels, 1638. Atop the chappell is a globe (or steele mirrour) pendant, wherein these linxeyed people view the deformity of their sinnes. ATOKNE, (1) v. To run away. Ib. ATOURNE, v. (4.-N.) To equip. AT-PLAY, adv. Out of work. Staff. He sturte him up in a breyd, In his herte sore atrayyed. ATRED, adj. (from Lat. ater.) Tinged with a black colour. ATRETE, ATRIGHTES, adv. Distinctly; } completely Trac tim, distincte. Prompt. Parv. ATRICK, 8. An usher of a hall, or master porter. Minshew. ATRIE, v. To try; to judge. Chefe justise he satte, the sothe to atrie, For lefe no loth to lette the right lawe to guye. Peter Langtoft, p. 80. ATRISTEN, v. To trust; to confide. ATROUTE, v. (1) To rout; to put to flight. (2) To assemble. ATRUTE, v. To appear. Hule and Nyghtingale, 1156 ATSCAPEN, 8. (A.-N.) To escape. Jesu, thi grace that is so fre ATSITTE, V. (A.-S.) To withstand; ATTACH, v. (Fr.) To join. Ten masts attach'd make not the altitude Which thou hast perpendicularly fallen. Shakesp., Lear, iv, 6. ATTACHE, (1) 8. (Fr.) A term in dress. An attache, is as much as to say, vulgarly, tack'd or fasten'd together, or one thing fasten'd to another. Ladies' Dictionary, 1694. (2) v. (A.-N.) To attach; to And comaunded a constable, To attachen tho tyrauntz. Piers Pl., p. 40. I gave oute a commission to certaine good worshyppefull folke at Brystow to attache Richard Webbe. Sir T. More's Works, p.727. ATTAINT, S. (1) A taint; anything hurtful. I will not poison thee with my attaint, Nor fold my fault in cleanly coin'd excuses. Shakesp., Lucrece. (2) A term in jousting. See (3). The kyng was that daye hyghly to be praysed, for he brake xxiij. speres, besyde attayntes, and bare doune to ground a man of armes and hys horse. Hall, Henry VIII, f. 55. (3) v. To hit or touch anything, as to strike a blow on a helmet. Palsgrave. ATTAL-SARESIN, s. A term formerly applied by the inhabitants of Cornwall to an old mine that is abandoned. ATTAME, v. (1) (A.-N. entamer.) To commence; to begin; to make a cut into; to broach a vessel of liquor. I pray ye, syr emperoure, shewe me thy mynde, whether is more accordynge, to attame thys fysshe here preasente, fyrste at the heade, or at the tayle. The emperoure answered shortlye, and sayde, at the head the fysshe shall be fyrste attamed. Fabian's Chron. f. 178. Yes, ooste, quoth he, soo mote I ryde or goo, But I be mery, I wis I wol be blamed: And right anon his tale he hath atamed, And thus he said unto us everichon. Chaucer, Nonnes Priest's Tale, ed. Urry. For sithin that payne was first named, Was ner more wofull payne attamed. Chaucer's Dreame, 596. To hurt; (2) (A.-N. atainer.) Of his scholder the swerd glod doun, (3) To tame. Which inade the King change face and And specially his pride gan attame, ATTAMINATE, v. (Lat. attamino.) After. Shropsh. ATTASK'D, part. p. Blamed. prep. (A.-S. at þan, at ATTEN, the, softened first into ATTAN, attan, then into atten, and finally into atte.) At the. And bad hir lyght it atte fyer. Caxton, Reynart, sig. B 6, b. Atte prestes hows. Ib., sig. B 7. Before a word beginning with a vowel, the final n was often retained. So that atten ende R. Glouc., p. 431. Sometimes, in this case, the n was thrown to the next word. And thanne seten somme, And songen atte nale. Piers Pl., p. 124. ATTE-FROME, adv. (A.-S. æt fruman.) At the beginning; immediately. ATTELAN, 8. (Lat. atellanus.) A drollery; a satirical piece. All our feasts almost, masques, mummings, banquets, merry meetings, weddings, pleasing songs, fine tunes, poems, love-stories, playes, concedies, attelans, jigs, fescenines, elegies, odes, &c. proceed hence. Burton, An. of Mel., ii, 341. ATTELE, v. (A.-S.) To aim; to design; to conjecture; to go towards; to approach. A form of ettle. ATTEMPERAUNCE, 8. (A.-N.) Temperance. The felawes of abstinence ben attempe. raunce, that holdith the mene in alle thinges; eek schame, that eschiewith al dishonesté. Chaucer, Persones T. And it bihoveth a man putte such attemperance in his defence, that mei have no cause ne matiere to repreve him, that defendith him, of excesse and outrage. Chaucer, T. of Melibeus ATTEMPEREL, adj. (4.-N.) Mo derate; temperate. Chaucer, T. of Melibeus adv. (4.-N.) Temperately. ATTEMPERALLY, ATTEMPRELY, Man schulde love his wyf by discres cioun, paciently and attemperelly, and thanne is sche as it were his suster. Chaucer, Persones 1 ATTEMPRE, (1) adj. (A.-N.) Tem perate. Sometimes written at ⚫tempred. Sche schulde eek serve him in à honesté, and ben attempre of hir array Chaucer, Persones i (2) v. To make temperate. ATTEMPTATE, s. (A.-N.) (1) Al attempt. (2) An encroachment or assault. ATTEND, v. (Fr.) To wait. Sundry of his greatest friends resolving to attend the receipt of some comfort to be sent from him. Bowes Correspondence, 1582. ATTENDABLE, adj. Attentive. ATTENDABLY, adv. Attentively. ATTENDER, S. One who attends; a companion, or comrade. ATTENT, adj. Attentive. Shakesp. ATTENTATES, s. pl. (Lat. attentata.) Proceedings in a court of judicature, pending suit, and after an inhibition is decreed and gone out. ATTENTLY, adv. ATTER, S. (1) (A.-S. atter.) Poison. Attentively. Ofuych a werm that atter bereth, Conybeare's Octavian, p. 57. (2) Corrupt matter issuing from an ulcer. Attyr fylth. Sanies. Prompt. Parv. Still used in this sense in some of the dialects. The sore is full of matter or atter. Hormanni Vulgaria, sig. I 6. In the towne of Schrowysbury, setan thre men togedur, and as they seton talkyng, an atturcoppe com owte of the wow3, and bote hem by the nekkus alle thre. Pref. to Rob. de Brunne, p. cc. (2) A spider's web. North. (3) A peevish, ill-natured person. North. ATTERLOTHE, s. (4.-S.) Nightshade. Explained by morella in list of plants in MS. Harl., 978. ATTERLY, adv. Utterly. Skinner. ATTERMITE, S. An ill-natured person. North. ATTERN, adj. (from A.-S. attern.) Fierce, snarling, ill-natured, cruel. Glouc. ATTERR, v. (Fr. atterrer.) Knowing this that your renown alone (As th' adamant, and as the amber drawes: That, hardest steel; this, easie-yeelding strawes) Atterrs the stubborn,and attracts the prone. Sylvesters Sonn. to E. of Essex, p. 74. ATTERRATE, 8. (Lat.) To become dry. ATTERRATION, 8. (Lat.) An old word for alluvial ground on the coast. ATTERING, adj. Venomous. ATTERY, adj. Purulent. East. Iras cible; choleric. West. See Attry. ATTEST, S. Attestation; testimony. ATTEYNANT, adj. Appertaining; attainable. ATTEYNT, part. p. (A.-N.) Convicted. ATTICE, 8. An adze. Somerset. ATTIGUOUS, adj. (Lat.) Very near; close by. ATTINCTURE, 8. (A.-N.) Attainder. ATTINGE, v. (Lat.) To touch lightly or gently. ATTIRES, 8. The horns of a stag. ATTISE, v. To entice. Servauntes, avoyde the company Of them that playe at cardes or dyse; For yf that ye then haunte, truely To thefte shall they you soone attyse. Anc. Poetica Tracts, p. 11. ATTITLE, v. To entitle; to name. |