AITCH, S. (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. (A.-S. að.) An oath.
North.

AITHE, S. Swearing.
AITHER, (1) pron. (A.-S.) Either.
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." West-
moreland and Cumberland Dia-
lects, p. 323.

(3) s. (A.-S.) A ploughing. North. AITS, S. 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 is 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 Harringto celebr 1596, published_a tract, called "The Metar phosis of Ajax," by which meant the improvement jakes, or privy, by forming it what we now call a water-cl of which Sir John was clearly inventor. The book was an fence to delicacy, for which Q Elizabeth kept him for some in disgrace. Probably from circumstance, the writers of Shakespearian age were co nually playing on this na by taking it in the sense gi to it by Harrington. A stool were better, sir, of Sir Ajaz invention. B. Jon., Epic., But, for his wit no matter much it wa Whether he sits at the boord, or on A Davies, Scourge of Folly,

Adoring Stercutio for a god, no unwoorthily then shamfully co tuting him a patron and protect Ajax and his commodities.

Hosp. of Incurab. Fooles, Inquire, if you understand it not Cloacina's chaplains, or such as well read in Ajax.

Camden, Remains, p. AJEE, adv. Awry; uneven. dial.

AJUGGEDE, part. p. Adjudg judged.

AK, conj. (A.-S. ac.) But.
AKALE, adj. Cold. See Acale.
AKARD, adv. Awkward. North
AKCORN, S. An acorn.
AKE, 8. (A.-S. æc.) An oak.
AKEDOUN, S. The acton.
Acton.

AKELE, V. (A.-S. acelan.) To co The kyng hyre fader was old man, and d to feblesse,

And the anguysse of hys dogter hym d more destresse,

And akelde hym wel the more, so that fe
he was.
Rob. Glouc., p. 4
AKENNE, v. (A.-S.) To reco

noitre; to discover.
AKER, (1) 8. (4.-S. æcer.)
acre; a field.

is generally subjoined. It is given by Grose, Thoresby, and Carr, as a word used in Yorkshire. ALAPAT, v. (Fr.) To hit hard; to beat. Alapite, in old French, is interpreted as meaning farceurs qui se donnoient des soufflets pour amuser le peuple. {

Not with a wand to alapat and strike them. Melton's Sixe-fold Politician, p. 125. ALARAN, 8. Seems to mean a kind of precious stone, in the following passage quoted from a MS. of the 15th century.

Here crop yng was of ryche gold,
Here parrelle alle of alaran:
Here bry dyll was of reler boide,
On every side hangyd belly's then.
ALARGE, V. (A.-N.) To enlarge; to
bestow liberally.

Such part in ther nativitie
Was then, alargid of beautie.

Chaucer's Dreame, 156.

ALAS-A-DAY. pity. Var. dial. ALAS-AT-LEVER. An exclamation of pity. Worksh.

An exclamation of

ALASSN, conj. Lest. Dorset.
ALAST, adv. At last; lately.
ALATE adv. Lately.

ALATKATE, V. (Lat. allatrare.) To
Fowl; to bark.

Let Cerberus, the dog of hel, alatrate what he liste to the contrary.

Stubbe's Anatomie of Abuses, p. 179. ALAUND, adv. On the grass; on the ground.

ALAUNDER, 8. A kind of pottage.

Alaunder of moton. Take moton of the legge, and seth hit tendur bi hitself, and qwhen hit is sothen, take and braie hit in a morter, or hewe hit smal with a knyfe, and putte hit in a pot and boile hit with the same broth; and take saffrone, and pouder of clowes, and of canel, and put therto, and seth hit, and serve hit forthe. Cookery Receipts, 1381. Alaunder of beef. Take leekes of the lengthe of a spoune, and take parcel and hewe smal, and pouder of pepur, and maree, and tempur hit togedur, and take leeches of beef, and rolle hom therin, and laye hom on a gridirne and on the coles tyl they ben rosted; and if

ye have no maree, take of the self tal and hewe hit with the parcelle, and t pur hit as ye dyd before.

ALAWK. Alack; alas. Suffolk. ALAY, v. (A.-N.) To mix; to duce, or lower, by mixing: plied most commonly to wi and liquors.

He must be ware of alle such thinges may chafe him if he drinketh wine him alaye it, or let it be soure.

Holibush's Homish Apothecary, fol. (2) A term in hunting, whe fresh dogs are sent into the cr ALAYE, v. (A.-S. alecgan.) To l low; depress; to apply. ALBACORE, S. (Fr.)

fish.

AUBE,

A kind

The albacore that followeth night and da The flying fish, and takes them for his pre Brit. Bibl., ii, 48 ALBE, conj. Albeit; although. ALBE, s. (A.-N.) A long whit linen garment, worn b Roman Catholic priests ALBIDENE, adv. (A.-S.) Fro ALBEDENE, time to time; on after another; by and by; forth with.

AWBE,

Kend it es how ze war kene

Al Inglis-men with dole to dere;
Thaire gudes toke ze albidene,
No man born wald зе forbere.
Minot's Poems
The ten comaundementes allebedene,
In oure play ze xal hem sene.
Ludus Coventriæ, p. 4

ALBERGE, 8. (Fr.) The early peach
ALBESPYNE, 8. (A.-N.) White.
AUBEPYNE, thorn; hawthorn.

And there the Jewes scorned him, and maden him a crowne of the braunches of albespyne, that is white thorn, that grew in that same gardyn, and setten it on his heved. Maundevile's Travels, p. 13. ALBIAN, 8. An old term for that

variety of the human species now called the Albino. ALBIFICATION, s. (Lat.) A chemical term for making white.

ALBLAST,

ALBLASTRE,

8. (4.-N.) An instrument

for

shooting arrows.

Both alblast and many a bow
War redy railed opon a row.

Minot's Poems, p. 16.

With alblastres and with stones,
They slowe men, and braken bones.
Kyng Alisaunder, 1211.

ALBLASTERE, 8. A crossbow-man.
ALBRICIAS, 8. (Spanish.) A reward
or gratuity given to one that
brings good news.
ALBURN, adj. Auburn. Skinner.
This word occurs in A New Eng-
lish Dictionary, 1691, explained
"a white brown."
ALBURN-TREE, 8. This word occurs
in MS. Harl., 221 (the Prompto-
rium Parvulorum), explained by
"viburnum," the wild vine.
ALBYN, adj. (Lat.) White.
ALBYSI, adv. (A.-S.) Scarcely;

i. e. with much business or labour, hardly. Rob. Glouc., p. 81. ALCAMYNE, 8. A mixed metal. An alchymical term. ALCATOTE, 18. A silly fellow. ALKITOTLE, Devon.

An oaf, a simple alcatote, an innocent. Ford's Works, ii, 212. ALCATRAS. A kind of sea-gull. (Ital.) Most like to that sharp-sighted alcatras, That beats the air above the liquid glass.

Drayton.

ALCHEMY, 8. A mixed metal. See Alcamyne.

ALCHION. Halcyon. This corruption occurs in Tatham's Royal Oake,

1660.

ALCHOCHODEN, s. The term given in astrology to the planet which bears rule in the principal places of an astrological figure, when a person is born. ALD, adj. (A.-S.) Old.

(2) v. Not unfrequently used in old MSS. for held, or hold. ALDAY, adv. Always.

They can afforce them alday, men may see. Bochas, b. i, c. 20.

ALDER, (1) adj. Older. (2) 8. An elder; an ancestor.

Our alders, our ancestors.

-highest. Highest of all.
And alderhighest tooke astronomye.
Lydgate's Minor P., p. 11.

-last. Last of all.

And alderlast, how he in his citee
Was by the sonne slayne of Tholomé.
Bochas, b. v, c. 4.

Hur own lorde, altherlaste,
The venom out of hys hedd braste.
Florence of Rome, 2115.

-lest. Least of all.

Love, ayenst the whiche who so defendith Himselvin moste, him aldirlest availeth.

Troilus and Cr., i, 605

But aldirmost in honour out of doute.
Troil. and Cres., i, 152.
To wraththe the God and paien the fend
hit serveth allermost.

Pol. Songs, p. 336.
The flour of chyvalarie now have y lost,
In wham y trust to alremost.

MS., 15th cent. Jesu wil the help in haste; Thi mischefe es now althermaste. Seven Sages (Weber), 3559. -next. Nearest of all; next of all.

The Saterday althernexte sewyng. Lydgat., Min. P., p. 20. -truest. Truest of all.

First, English king, I humbly do request,

That by your means our princess may unite

Her love unto mine aldertruest love.

Greene's Works, ii, 156.

to be betwixt a trout an grayling. ALDERMANRY, 8. A governn by aldermen.

The government of Stamford was, before their written charter, held used amongst themselves by an an called prescription, which was aldermanry of the guild.

Butcher's Stamford, 1717, ALDERMEN, 8. (4.-S.) Men of and dignity above the rest. ALDERNE, 8. (A.-S.) The e

tree.

ALDO, conj. Although. East. ALDRESS, 8. (A.-S.) The wif an alderman. The word oc on a brass plate in the churc St. Stephen, Norwich, given Blomefield, Hist. Norw., 11 vol. ii, p. 595.

Here ly buried Misstresse Maud Head
Sometyme an Aldress, but now am dea
Anno MCCCCCLX and Seaven,
The XIII Day of April, then
My Lyf I leafte, as must all Men,
My Body yelding to Christen Dust,
My Soule to God the faithfull and Jus
ALDRIAN, 8. A star on the nec
the lion. Chaucer.

ALE, 8. (4.-S.) (1) A rural festi
"At wakes and ales." Ben
son's Tale of a Tub, prol.
(2) An ale-house.

O, Tom, that we were now at Putne the ale there.

Thom. Lord Cromwell, i

(3) All. (4) Also. ALEBERRY, 8. A beverage m by boiling ale with spice sugar, and sops of bread. ALECCIOUN, 8. An election. Besechyng you therfore to help to resignacion therof, and the kvnges le to the byshop of Lincoln for the aleco Monastic Letters, p. ALECIE, 8. Drunkenness caused ale.

If he had arrested a mare instead horse, it had beene a slight oversig but to arrest a man, that hath no nesse of a horse, is flat lunasie, or aid Lyly's Mother Bom