An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 5

AC, EC, _conj._ But, and.

_Barbour._

A. S. _aec_, _eac_; Moes. G. _auk_; Alem. _auh_; Su. G. _och_, _ock_; Belg. _ook_; Lat. _ac_, etiam.

ACCOMIE, _s._ A species of metal, S.

V. ~Alcomye~.

_To_ ACCORD. Used impersonally; _as accords_, or _as accords of law_, i.

e. as is agreeable or conformable to law. It has greater lat.i.tude of signification than the phrase, _as effeiris_, which denotes any thing proportional, convenient, or becoming, as well as conformity.

_Laws of S._

_To_ ACHERSPYRE, _v. n._ To shoot, to germinate, E. _acrospire_.

_Chalmerlan Air._

A. S. _aechir_, an ear of corn, _aecer_, Su. G. _aakar_, corn, and _spira_, the projection of any thing that is long and slender. Gr.

a????, summus, and spe??a, spira.

ACHERSPIRE, _s._ The germination of malt at that end of the grain from which the stalk grows, S.

ACHIL, _adj._ n.o.ble.

V. ~Athil~.

_To_ ACRES, ACRESCE, _v. n._

1. To increase, to gather strength.

_Burel._

2. Used us a law term in S. to denote that one species of right, or claim, flows from, and naturally falls to be added to, its princ.i.p.al.

Fr. _accroist-re_, Lat. _accrescere_, id.

_To_ ACQUEIS, _v. a._ To acquire.

_Burel._

Fr. _acquis_, _acquise_, part. pa.; Lat. _acquisitus_.

ACQUART, AIKWERT, _adj._ Cross, perverse, S.

_Douglas._

A. S. _acwerd_, aversus, perversus, E. _aukward_.

ACTON, _s._ A leathern jacket, strongly stuffed, anciently worn under a coat of mail.

_Stat. Rob. I._

O. Fr. _auqueton_, _haucton_, L. B. _aketon_, _acton_, id.

ACTUAL, _adj._ _An actual minister_, or _an actual man_, a phrase still used by the vulgar to denote one who is in full orders as a minister of the gospel, S.

_Wodrow._

L. B. _actus_, officium, ministerium.

ADDETt.i.t, _part. pa._ Indebted.

_Douglas._

Fr. _endebte_, id.

ADEW, used as an _adj._ Gone, departed.

_Douglas._

From Fr. _adieu_, used in an oblique sense.

ADEW, _part. pa._ Done.

_Wallace._

A. S. _adoa_ facere, _adon_ tollere.

ADHEILL, _s._ The district in S. now called Athol.

_Barbour._

Gael. _Blair-adh-oll_, Blair-Atholl, expl. "the great pleasant plain."