AGUISE. See Agguise. AGULTE, 8. To be guilty; to offend. The form of the word which occurs in Piers Ploughman, Robert of Gloucester, and other early writers. See Agilte. AGWAIN. Going. Agwon, gone. Somerset. AGTE, (1). To guide; to govern. See Gie. (2) adv. Aside; askew. North. AGYNNE, #. (A.-S.) To begin. Thou wendest that ich wrohte A. (1) I. Yorksh. Kyng Horn, 1285. (2) Yes. Derbysh. A-HANG, part. p. Hanged; been hanged. Rob. Glouc. ÁR BUT. Equivalent to nay but, frequently used in the country. It appears to be generally a sneering dissent to an assertion of an uncomplimentary character. AREYE, ade. On high. AHYGH, } And sethe he reignede her Ahte ant tuenti tolle yer. Chronicle of England, 416. АнUн, adv. Awry; aslant. Var. dial. A-HUNGRY. Hungry. Shakesp. AнzE, 8. (A.-S. æge.) Fear. Ai, adv. (A.-S.) Always; ever. AID, S. In Staffordshire, a vein of ore going downwards out of the perpendicular line; in Shropshire, a deep gutter cut across ploughed land, as well as a reach in the river, are so called. AIDER, 8. A helper. What men should scale the walles of the cytie of Worcestre, and who should kepe the passages for lettyng of res kewes and aiders. Hall, Henry VII, f. 4. AIDLE, V. To addle; to earn. North. AIE, 8. (A.-S.) An egg. And for the tithing of a ducke, Urry's Chaucer, p. 185. AIEL, 8. (A.-N.) A forefather. To gyve from youre heires AIESE, s. Ease; pleasure; recrea tion. AIG, (1) 8. (A.-S.) A haw. Lanc. (2) s. (A.-N.) Sourness. North. AIGHENDALE. A measure in Lancashire containing seven quarts. Ash. See Aghendole. AIGHS, S. An axe. Lanc. AIGHT, pret. Ought; owed. Yorksh. AIGHTEDEN, adj. (A.-S.) The eighth. AIGLE, 8. A spangle; the gold or silver tinsel ornamenting the dress of a showman or ropedancer. Shropsh. See Aglet. (2) s. An icicie. Midl. Counties. AIGRE, adj. (A.-N.) Sour; acid. Yorksh. See Egre. AIGREEN, S. The house-leek. Kersey. AIGULET, 8. The clasp of a buckle. "Aiguelet to fasten a clasp in." Palsgrave. See Aglet. AIK, 8. An oak. North. AIKER, S. Glory. Cornw. AIL, v. (A.-S. aidlian.) To be indisposed. Var. dial. (2) 8. 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) 8. (A.-N.) A wing, or part of a building flanking another. AILETTES, 8. (4.-N.) Small plates of steel placed on the shoulders in ancient armour, introduced under Edward I. AILS, 8. (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, 1591. (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, 8. A stander-by, who encouraged the archers by exclamations. Hence used for an abettor or encourager. While her own creatures, Eke aim-criers, beheld her mischance with nothing but lip-pity. English Arcadia. AIN, (1) adj. (A.-S.) Own. North. O then bespy'd her air 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. To anoint. Figuratively, AINT, v. to beat. Suffolk. AIR, (1) adv. (A.-S.) Early. I griev'd you never in all my life, MS. Ashmole, xxxiii, f. 46. (3) Appearance. AIR-DEW, 8. An old name for manna. (2). 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 lus house doth offen 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 contianally 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. dirthful, fearful. North. AIRY. An eagle's nest; also used for the brood of young in the nest. See Aerie. AISE, 8. (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. AYSEL ASEL, receipts in the Forme of Cury, 66 wyne, vynegar aysell, other alegar," and "vynegar other aysell," are mentioned as ingre dients. There was, perhaps, therefore, a difference between what was ordinarily called vinegar and aisel; and it has been supposed that aysell may have been what has since been cailed verjuice; that is, an acid obtained from the expressed juice of crab-apples, or wildings. Agnus Castus soden with feneil in asell is good to destroy the dropsy. Als a physter made wyth thys herbe schervill tempered with ays - destroy th wy.de lyre. Poor Man's Herbal. She was like thing for hungir ded, That lad her life only by bred Kredin with eisel strong and egre, And there to she was lene and megre. Chaucer, Rom of the Rus, 1. 217. AISLICHE, adj. (A.-S. egeslice.) Fearfully. There I anntrede me in, AISNECIA, 8. (from A.-N. aisné.) AIST. Thou wilt. Linc. extra-allowance given to labourers at that season. Northampt. AISTRE, 8. (A.-N. aistre, or, as it ESTRE, } is very cornistre, as it 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. AITCH, 8. (4.-S.) An ach, or pain; a paroxysm in an intermitting disorder. Var. dial. AITCH-BONE 8. The edge-bone (os innominatum). Var. dial. AITCHORNING, S. Gathering acorns; acorning. Chesh. AITH, 8. (4.-S. að.) An oath. AITHE, 8. Swearing. (2) Each. West (3) s. (A.-S.) A ploughing. North. AITS, 8. Oats. North. AIXES, S. (4.-S.) An ague. Grose gives this as a Northumberland word, and Brockett explains it, "a fit or paroxysm of an ague." AIYAH, 8. The fat about the kid ney 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 Harrington, in celebrated 1596, published a 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 Ajar his invention. B. Jon., Epic., iv, 5. But, for his wit no matter much it wakes, Whether he sits at the boord, or on Ajaz. Davies, Scourge of Folly, 1611. Adoring Stercutio for a god, no lesse unwoorthily then shamfully constituting him a patron and protector of Ajar 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 AKENNE, v. (A.-S.) noitre; to discover. AKER, (1) 8. (4.-S. œcer.) 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) 8. An acorn. South. ÅKER-LOND, 8. Cultivated land. ÅKERMAN, 8. A husbandman. AKETHER, adv. Indeed. Devon. ÅKEVERE, T. (A.-N.) To recover. AKEWARD, ade. Wrongly. See Acward. AKINNANCE, adv. On one side; askaunce. Dorset. AKKER, v. (A.-S.) To shake, or tremble. Northamptonsh. AKKERD, adj. Awkward. Nor ARNEN, knees; kneeling. AKNEWES, And made mony knyght aknawe, Tho Athelbrus astounde, Kyng Horn, 340. To know; to acknowledge; to be con AKNAWE, v. (A.-S.) scious of. AKSIS, 8. (A.-S.) The ague. See Aires. eksis. That is y-schakyd and schent with the Audelay's Poems, p. 47. AKSE, t. (A.-S.) To ask. AL. Will. Al, I will, he will. Var, dial. ALAAN, adj. Alone. North. ALABASTRINE, adj. Like alabaster; made of alabaster. Another while under the crystall brinks Her elabastrine well-shapt limbs she shrinks. Lake to a lilly sunk into a glasse. Sylvester's Du Bartas, 202. ALABLASTER, S. (1) A corrupt pro nunciation of alabaster. ALABRE, 8. A kind of fur. And eke his cloke with alabre, MS. of 15th cent. ALACCHE, T. (A.-N. alacher.) To fresh supplies Was lately come aland. ALAND, ALAN, 8. (A.-N. alan, alant.) Aboute his chare wente white alaune, Bourchier's Froissart, b. iv, c. 24. ALANDE, v. (from the adv.) To land. |