An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 23

2. To raise up.

_Douglas._

This sense is so different from the former, that it might rather seem to be put for _arraise_, q. to raise up.

Fr. _arrach-er_, to tear, to pull by violence; to pull up by the roots, from Lat. _eradic-are_.

ARBY, _s._ The sea-gilliflower, Orkn.

_Neill._

ARBY-ROOT, _s._ The root of the sea-pink, or Statice armeria, Orkn.

ARCH, ARGH, AIRGH, ERGH, (gutt.) _adj._

1. Averse, reluctant; often including the idea of timidity as the cause of reluctance, S.

_Douglas._

2. Apprehensive, filled with anxiety, S. Chaucer, _erke_, weary, indolent.

_Popul. Ball._

A. S. _earg_, desidiosus, iners, slothful, sluggish, _earh_ fugax, "timorous, and ready to run away for fear," Somn. Isl. _arg-ur_, reformidans; _arg-r_ piger, deses; Su. G. _arg_, ignavus. Among the Goths _argur_, L. B. _arga_, denoted a poltroon, a coward.

_To_ ARCH, ARGH, _v. n._ To hesitate, to be reluctant.

V. ~Ergh~, _v._

ARCHNES, ARGHNESS, _s._

1. Reluctance, backwardness.

_Wodrow._

2. Obliquely used for n.i.g.g.ardliness, q. reluctance to part with any thing.

_Legend Bp. St Androis._

_To_ AREIK, ARREIK, _v. a._ To reach, to extend.

_Douglas._

A. S. _arecc-an_, a.s.sequi, to get, to attain.

AREIR, _adv._ Back. _To rin areir_, to decline.

_Lyndsay._

Fr. _arriere_ backward; Lat. _a retro_.

ARESOUND, _pret._ Perhaps, called in question; Fr. _aresoner_, interroger, questionner, demander; _ratiocinari_; Gl. Roquefort.

_Areson_ is used by R. Brunne in the sense of persuade, or reason with.

_Sir Tristrem._

ARETTYT, _part. pa._ Accused, brought into judgment.

_Barbour._

L. B. _rect-are_, _ret-are_, _arett-are_, accusare, in jus vocare, Du Cange.

ARGENT CONTENT, Ready money. Fr. _argent comptant_, id.

_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._

_To_ ARGH, _v. n._ To hesitate.

V. ~Arch~, and ~Ergh~, _v._

ARGIE, _s._ a.s.sertion in a dispute, the specific plea which one uses in disputation, S. B.

Su. G. _ierga_, semper eadem obgannire; Isl. _iarg-r_, keen contention.

_To_ ARGLE-BARGLE, AURGLE-BARGIN, _v. n._ To contend, to bandy backwards and forwards, S. _Argle-bargin_, Loth. _Eaggle-bargin_, synon.

_Ramsay._

Isl. _arg_ enraged, _jarg-a_ to contend.

_To_ ARGONE, ARGOWNE, ARGWE, ARGEW, _v. a._

1. To argue, to contend by argument.

_Bannatyne Poems._