(2) Yes (a contraction of aye). Somerset. (3) And. Somerset. It occurs in this sense not unfrequently in old MSS., perhaps an accidental abridgement. (4) An interrogative, equivalent to what? Var. Dial. (5) If. Suffolk. (6) He. It is often put into the mouths of ignorant or vulgar people in this sense by the old dramatists, and it is not uncommon in MSS. of an earlier date. (7) They. In the dialect of Shropshire. In the western counties it is used for she, and sometimes for it. (8) All. (9) Have. As in the common expression "a done," i. e. have done. (10) In. "A Latin," in Latin. "A Goddes name," in God's is born, because it is the initial of Adam, and a female e-e, as that of Eve. AAC, S. (4.-S.) An oak. North. AAD, adj. (A.-S.) Old. Yorksh. AADLE, v. (4.-S.) To flourish. Suffolk. See Addle. AAINT, v. (A.-S.) To anoint. Suffolk. AAKIN, adj. (A.-S.) Oaken. North. AAN, (1) adj. Own. Yorks. (2) inter. A contraction of anan! what say you? East. (3) adv. On. A form of the word used in a MS. of the 15th Century, in the Ashmolean Library. Do, cosyn, anon thyn armys aan. AANDE, S. (Danish). Breath. A form of the word not uncommon in MSS. of the 15th Century. Hys mynde es schort when he oght thynkes, Hys nese oft droppes, hys aande stynkes. Hampole, MS. Bowes. AANDORN, AADORN, }s. 8. (4.-S.) An after noon's repast; the afternoon. Cumb. See Arndern. AANE, 8. (4.-S.) The beard of barley or other grain, the awn. AB, 8. (A.-S.?) The sap of a tree. Yet diverse have assaied to deale without okes to that end, but not with so good successe as they have hoped, bicause the ab or juice will not so soone be removed and cleane drawne out, which some attribute to want of time in the salt water. Harrison's Description of England. ABACK, adv. Backwards. North. They drew aback, as half with shame confound. Spens. Shep. Kal. June. 63. ABACK-A-BEHINT, adv. Behind; in the rear. North. ABACTED, part. p. (Lat. abactus). Driven away by violence. ABACTOR, 8. (Lat.) One that drives away herds of cattle by stealth or violence. ABADE, (1) past t. of abiden (4.-S.). Abode; remained. (2) s. Delay. In MSS. of 14th For soone aftir that he was made, ABAFELLED, part. p. treated scornfully. ABAISED, ABAIST, ABAISCHT, ABAISCHITE Baffled; part.p.(from A.-N· >abaisser). Ashamed; abashed. And unboxome y-be, Piers Pl., p. 518. ABANDE, v. To abandon; forsake. And Vortigern enforst the kingdom to aband. Spenser. Let us therefore both cruelty abande, And prudent seeke both gods and men to please. Mirour for Magistrates. ABANDON, adv. (A.-N. à bandon, at discretion). Liberally; at discretion; freely, fully exposed. Aftir this swift gift tis but reason He give his gode too in abandon. Rom. of the Rose, 2342. ABASURE, S. (A.-N.) Abasement. ABASTICK, adj. Insatiable. ABATAYLMENT, 8. (A.-N.) Battle ment. Sir Gawayne, p. 30. ABATE, V. (A.-N.) (1) To subtract. Abatyn, subtraho. Prompt. Parv. It was the technical term for the operation in arithmetic. (2) To beat down, or overthrow. (3) To cast down, or depress the Ys continaunce abated eny bost to make. (5) To contract, or cut short. Shakesp. (6) To lower, applied to banners. Common in this sense in the metrical romances. Alle the baners that Crysten founde They were abatyde. Octovian Imp., 1743. (7) To flutter, or beat with the wings. A hawking term. An hawke that traveyleth upon the teyne, a man may knowe if he take hede, for suche is her maner that she wolde pante for abatyng then another doth, for in and if she shold fle a litell while almoste she wolde lose her breth, whether she be high or lowe. Reliq. Antiq., i, 300. (8) To reduce to a lower temper, applied to metal. (9) To disable a writ. A law term. ABATEMENT, S. (A.-N.) (1) “A mark added or annexed to a ABATY, v. (A.-N.) To abate. And that he for ys nevew wolde, for to abaty stryf, Do hey amendement, sawve lyme and lyf. Rob. Glouc. ABAUT, prep. About. North. ABAWE, ABAUE, ABAVE, v. (from A.-N. abaubir For, soche another, as I gesse, Rom. of the Rose, 3644. My mirth and melis is fasting, The Dreme, 614. Many men of his kynde sauh him so abaued. Langtoft's Chron., p. 210. (2) (4.-S.) To bow; to bend. Cambridge MS. of 15th Cent. ABAWT, prep. Without. Staffordsh. ABAYE, v. (from A.-N. abayer.) To bark. ABAY, S. (A.-N.) The barking of dogs; at abay, at bay. And this doon, every man stond abrod Thus the forest they fraye, Sir Degrevante, Linc. MS. ABAY, v. To suffer a heavy penalty; to abie. This form is given by Skinner. ABAYSCHID, ABAYSSHETTE, See Abie. part.p. Abashed; frightened. See Abaissed. ABAYST, part. p. (A.-N.) Disappointed. And that when that they were travyst, And of herborow were abayst. Brit. Bibl., iv, 83. ABB, s. (from A.-S. ab.) The yarn of a weaver's warp. ABBARAYED, past t. Started. And aftyr that he knonnyngly abbarayed, And to the kyng evyn thus he sayd. Lydgate's Minor Poems, p. 4. ABBAS, 8. An abbess. ABBAY, V. (A.-N. abbayer.) To bay; to bark. See Abay. ABBEN, v. To have. Glouc. Dif ferent parts of the verb in this form are found in Robert of Gloucester. Arture, Uter sone, of wan we tolde byvore, Ye abbyth y-hurd hou he was bygete and y-bore. ABBESS, S. According to Grose, this is a vulgar name for the mistress of a disreputable establishment. ABBEY, S. (A.-N.) The great white poplar, a variety of the populus alba. W'estm. Yorks. AB, 8. (4.-S.?) The sap of a tree. Yet diverse have assaied to deale without okes to that end, but not with so good successe as they have hoped, bicause the ab or juice will not so soone be removed and cleane drawne out, which some attribute to want of time in the salt water. Harrison's Description of England. ABACK, adv. Backwards. North. They drew aback, as half with shame confound. Spens. Shep. Kal. June. 63. ABACK-A-BEHINT, adv. Behind; in the rear. North. ABACTED, part. p. (Lat. abactus). Driven away by violence. ABACTOR, 8. (Lat.) One that drives away herds of cattle by stealth or violence. ABADE, (1) past t. of abiden (4.-S.).' Abode; remained. (2) s. Delay. In MSS. of 14th For soone aftir that he was made, part.p.(from A.-N. ABAIST, abaisser). Asham ABAISCHT, ABAISCHITE ed; abashed. And unboxome y-be, Piers Pl., p. 518. Let us therefore both cruelty abande, And prudent seeke both gods and men to please. Mirour for Magistrates. ABANDON, adv. (A.-N. à bandon, at discretion). Liberally; at discretion; freely, fully exposed. Aftir this swift gift tis but reason He give his gode too in abandon. Rom. of the Rose, 2342. His ribbes and scholder fel adoun, ABANDUNE, v. (4.-N.) To subject; to abandon. Skelton. ABARCY, 8. (Med. Lat. abartia.) Insatiableness. ABARE, v. (A.-S. abarian). To make bare. ABARRE, v. (from A.-N. abarrer). To prevent. Reducynge to remembraunce the prysed inemoryes and perpetuall renowned factes of the famouse princes of Israel, which did not only abarre ydolatrye and other ungodlynesse, but utterly abolished all occasyons of the same. ABARSTICK, 8. ABARSTIR, adj. Monastic Letters, p. 209. Insatiableness. Myght no man be abarstir. Towneley Mysteries. ABASE, v. (4.-N. abaisser). To cast down; to humble. Spenser. Among illiterate persons, it is still used in the sense of debase. "I wouldn't abase myself by descending to hold any conversation with him." Oliver Twist, iii, 134. ABASHMENT, 8. (A.-N.) The state of being abashed. ABAST, part. p. Downcast. See Abaised. ABASTARDIZE, v. (A.-N. abastarder). To render illegitimate or base. ABASURE, 8. (A.-N.) Abasement. ABASTICK, adj. Insatiable. ABATAYLMENT, 8. (A.-N.) Battle ment. Sir Gawayne, p. 30. ABATE, v. (A.-N.) (1) To subtract. Abatyn, subtraho. Prompt. Parv. It was the technical term for the operation in arithmetic. (2) To beat down, or overthrow. (3) To cast down, or depress the Ys continaunce abated eny bost to make. (5) To contract, or cut short. Shakesp. (6) To lower, applied to banners. Common in this sense in the metrical romances. Alle the baners that Crysten founde They were abatyde. Octovian Imp., 1743. (7) To flutter, or beat with the wings. A hawking term. An hawke that traveyleth upon the teyne, a man may knowe if he take hede, for suche is her maner that she wolde pante for abatyng then another doth, for in and if she shold fle a litell while almoste she wolde lose her breth, whether she be high or lowe. Reliq. Antiq., i, 300. (8) To reduce to a lower temper, applied to metal. (9) To disable a writ. A law term. ABATEMENT, S. (A.-N.) (1) "A mark added or annexed to a ABATY, V. (A.-N.) To abate. And that he for ys nevew wolde, for to abaty stryf, Do hey amendement, sawve lyme and lyf. Rob. Glouc. ABAUT, prep. About. North. ABAWE, ABAUE, ABAVE, v. (from A.-N. abaubir For, soche another, as I gesse, Rom. of the Rose, 3644. My mirth and melis is fasting, The Dreme, 614. (2) (4.-S.) To bow; to bend. Cambridge MS. of 15th Cent. ABAY, S. (A.-N.) The barking of dogs; at abay, at bay. And this doon, every man stond abrod Thus the forest they fraye, Sir Degrevante, Linc. MS. ABAY, V. To suffer a heavy penalty; to abie. This form is given by Skinner. See Abie. ABAYSCHID, part.p.Abashed; ABAYSSHETTE, Abaissed. frightened. See ABAYST, part. p. (4.-N.) Disappointed. And that when that they were travyst, ABBAS, 8. ferent parts of the verb in this Arture, Uter sone, of wan we tolde byvore, Ye abbyth y-hurd hou he was bygete and y-bore. ABBESS, S. According to Grose, this is a vulgar name for the ABBEY, S. (4.-N.) The great white poplar, a variety of the populus |