ARRAUGHT, pret. of arreach. ARRAUGHTE, v. (from Fr. ar- For whoso will make a feste to ony of (2) To dirty; to defile; to beray. Palsgrave. Also, to spot anything. Ib. See Araye. ARRAWIG, S. An earwig. Northampt. ARRAWIGGLE, s. An earwig. Suff. ARRAYERS, S. Officers who had the care of the soldiers' armour. ARRE, v. To snarl. ARREAR, adv. (A.-N.) Behind. To leave with speed Atlanta in arrear Fairf. Tasso, ii, 40. Ne ever did her eye sight turn arere. Spenser, Virgil's Gnat., v, 468. ARRECHE, v. To reach. See ARREACH, Areche. Conferred them, and the letters addressed to the kinges majesté oute of Ireland, togithers; whiche we have wayed, debated, and considered, as farre as our poure wyttes can arreche. State Papers, i, 671. ARRECT, v. (Lat.) (1) To impute. Therfore he arrecteth no blame of theyr dedes unto them. Sir Thomas More's Workes, p. 271. (2) To refer. Arrectinge unto your wyse examinacion (3) To direct. "I arecte, I ARRERE, Araise. Rather. Northampt. v. (A.-S.) To rear; to ARREAR, raise. See Arere. And out of Surrye, and out of Turkye, and out of other contrees that he holt, he may arrere mo than 50,000. Maundevile's Travels, p. 38. And in the west parte of the saide walle ARRERE, adj. Strange; wonderful. supper; a collation served up in the bed-room, after the first supper. ARRESOND. Reasoned with. See Areson. Of the customes of Sarasines, and of hire lawe; and how the Soudan arresond me, auctour of this book. Maundevile's Travels, p. 131. ARRET, v. (Fr. arrêter.) To decree, or appoint. Spenser. ARRETTED. "Is he," says Cowell, "that is covenanted before a judge, and charged with a crime." See his Interpreter, fol., Lond., 1658. It is translated by "ad rectum vocatus," in Rider's Dictionarie, 1640. ARRIDE, v. (Lat. arrideo.) To please; to amuse. 'Fore heav'ns his humour arrides me exceedingly. Every Man out of his Humour, ii, 1. Her form answers my affection, it arrides me exceedingly. The Antiquary, O. P., x, 32. This is a good, pretty, apish, docible fellow; really he might have made a very pretty barber surgeon, if he had been put out in time; but it arrides me extreamly to think how he will be bob'd. Shadwell, The Humorists, 1771. ARRIDGE, 8. The edge of anything that is liable to hurt or cause an arr. North. ARRIERE, 8. (Fr.) The hinder part; the rear. ARRISHES, S. The Devonshire term for stubble or eddish. ARRIVANCE, S. (A.-N.) (1) The arrival of company. For every minute is expectancy (2) Original abode of a family. ARRIVE, S. Arrival. Whose forests, hills, and floods, then long for her arrive From Lancashire. Drayt., Polyolb., Song, 28. These novice lovers at their first arrive Are bashfull both. Sylvester's Du Bartas, 212. So small a number can no warre pretend, Therefore their strange arrive they neede not feare, As farre as doth their hemisphere extend, They view the sea, but see no shipping neare. Great Britaine's Troy, 1609. The verb arrive is sometimes used in an active form, without the preposition. But ere we could arrive the point propos'd, Cæsar cried, Help me, Cassius, or I sink. Shakesp. Jul. C., i, 2. Milton has adopted this form : Ere he arrive The happy isle. Par. Lost, ii. ARRODE, v. (Lat.) To gnaw. ARROGATION, S. (Lat.) Arrogance. More. ARRONLY, adv. Exceedingly. Lanc. ARROSE, v. (Fr. arroser.) To wet; to bedew. your day is lengthen'd, and The blissful dew of heaven does arrose you. Beaum. and Fl. His navye greate, with many soudyoures, To sayle anone into this Britayn made, In Thamis arrose, wher he had ful sharpe shoures. Hardyng's Chron., ed. Ellis, p. 76. ARROW, adj. (4.-S.) Fearful. Rider. See Argh. ARS, S. (A.-N.) Art; science. Legend of Pope Gregory, p. 25. The seven arts, or sciences, of the schools were Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, Astronomy, Grammar, Rhetoric, and Logic; and these were the arts, par excellence, understood in the academical degrees, and in ancient scholastic education. A "master of arts meant a proficient in these seven arts. They are enumerated in the following lines: Throzh hye grace of Crist yn heven, He commensed yn the syens seven; Gramatica ys the furste syens y-wysse, Dialetica the secunde so have y blysse, Rethorica the thrydde, withoute nay, Musica ys the fowrthe, as y 30w say, Astromia ys the v. by my snowte, Arsmetica the vi. withoute dowte, Gemetria the seventhe maketh an ende, For he ys bothe meke and hende. MS. Bib. Reg., 17 A I, fol. 23. ARSARD, adj. Unwilling; perARSET, verse. Var. dial. ARSBAWST, S. A fall on the back. Staff. ARSBOORD, S. The hinder board of a cart. Staff. ARSEDINE, given as the translation of "mergulus" in Higins's Junius, ed. 1585, p. 60. ARSELING-POLE, s. The pole with which bakers spread the hot embers to all parts of the oven. East. ARSELINS, adv. Backwards. Norf. ARSENICK, 8. The water-pepper. Water-pepper, or arsenicke: some call it kill-ridge, or culerage." Nomenclator, 1585. ARSEPUSH, S. A fall on the back. Howell. ARSESMART, 8. The persicaria, or water-pepper, called in old French culrage. See Arsenick. ARSEVERSE, S. "A pretended spell, written upon the door of an house to keep it from burning." Blount's Glossographia, ed. 1681. ARSEWARD, adv. Backward. Cumb. ARSEWISPE, s. Rider gives this word as the translation of aniter gium. ARSLE, v. To move backwards; to fidget. East. ARSMETRIK, 8. Arithmetic. And arsmetryk, be castyng of nombrary, Lydgate's Minor Poems, p. 11. ARSOMEVER, adv. However. Leic. ARSOUN, s. (A.-N.) The bow of ARSON, a saddle; each saddle ARSUN, having two arsouns, one in front, the other behind. An ax he heute of metall broun An ax he hente boun, Lybeaus Disconus, 1. 1322. He karf his heorte and his pomon, K. Alisaunder, 1. 4375. Sir Launcelot gave him such a buffet, that the arson of his saddle broke, and so he flew over his horse's tail. Malory, H. of K. Arthur, v. i, p. 190. Sir Launcelot passed through them, and lightly he turned him in again, and smote another knight throughout the ARSY-VERSY, adv. Upside down; preposterously, Drayton. ART, (1) s. A quarter; a point of the compass. North. (2) Eight. Exmoor. ARTE, v. (Lat. arcto.) To conARCT, strain; compel; urge. And ore all this, ful mokil more he thought What for to speke, and what to holden inne, And what to artin her to love he sought. Chaucer, Tr. and Cres., Urry, p. 272. Love artid me to do my observaunce To his estate, and done him obeisaunce. Court of Love, Urry, p. 560. Wherthrugh, they be artyd by necessity so to watch, labour, and grub in the grounde for their sustenaunce, that their nature is much wastid, and the kynd of them brought to nowght. Fortescue on Absolute Monarchy, p. 22. ARTEEN. Eighteen. Exmoor. ARTEMAGE, S. The art of magic. And through the crafte of artemage, Of wexe he forged an ymage. Gower, ed. 1532, f. 138. ARTER, prep. After. Var. dial. ARTETYKES, S. (Gr.) A disease affecting the joints; a sort of gout. ARTH-STAFF, s. A poker used by blacksmiths. Shropsh. ARTHUR, 8. A game at sea, described in Grose. Ac an aruwe oway he bare In his eld wounde. ARTHUR-A-BRADLEY. A very popular old song, frequently referred to. Three songs are still preserved relating to this hero. One of them is published in Ritson's edition of Robin Hood, and another may be seen in Dixon's Ancient Poems, p. 161. ARTHUR'S-SHOW. An exhibition of archery by a toxophilite society in London, of which an account was published in 1583, by Richard Robinson. The associates were fifty-eight in number, and had assumed the arms and names of the Knights of the Round Table. ARTICLE, S. (1) Comprehension. Shakesp. (2) A poor creature; a wretched animal. ARTICULATE, v. (Lat.) To exhibit in articles. ARTIER, S. (Fr.) An artery. ARTIFICIAL, adj. Ingenious; artful; skilful in art. ARTILLERY, 8. This word was formerly applied to all kinds of missile weapons. ARTNOON, S. Afternoon. Essex. ART-OF-MEMORY, S. An old game at cards. Compleat Gamester, ed. 1709, p. 101. ARTOW, v. Art thou; a common And he haves on thoru his arum, Havelok, 1992. ARUNDE, S. An errand. Perhaps it should be printed arnnde. ARUWE, S. An arrow. Sir Tristrem, p. 304. ARVAL, S. A funeral. North. Arvalsupper is a funeral feast given to the friends of the deceased, at which a particular kind of coarse cake, composed of flour, water, yeast, currants, and some kind of spice, called arval-bread, is sometimes distributed among the poor. ARVYST-GOS, s. A stubble goose. A yong wyf and an arryst-gos, Reliq. Antiq., ii, 113. ARWE, plural arwen, arewen, as well as arewes, arwes, s. (A.-S.) An arrow. Myd arwen, and myd quareles so muche folk first me slow. Rob. of Glouc., p. 48. Of golde he sent hym a coroune, And a swithe fair faukoune, Tweye bugle hornes, and a bowe also, And fyve arewen ek therto. K. Alisaunder. ARWE, (1) v. (A.-S. eargian.) To render timid. (2) adj. Timid; fearful. See Thou saist soth, hardy and hard, ARWEBLAST, S. A crossbow or arbalest. The galeye wente alsoo faste As quarrel dos off the arweblast. Richard Coeur de Lion, 2524. ARWE-MAN, S. A bowman. (?) He calde bothe arwe-men and kene, Knithes and serganz swithe sleie Havelok, 2115. ARWYGGYL, S. An earwig. Prompt. Parv. See arrawiggle. ARYNE, prest. t. pl. Are. A provincial pronunciation of arn. For alle the sorowe that we aryne inne, It es ilke dele for oure syne. Sir Isumbras. ARYOLES. (Lat. hariolus.) Soothsayers; diviners. For aryoles, nygromancers, brought ARYSE, part. p. Arisen. K. Alisaunder, 3748. ARYSTE, S. Arras. "iij. peeces of aryste." Unton Inventories, p. 5. As. That; which; who. Var. dial. "He as comes," for he who comes. In Leicestersh. they say as yet as, for, as yet. A-SAD, adj. Sad; sorrowful. ASALY, v. (A.-N.) To assail; to besiege. Hii bygonne an holy Thores eve then toun asaly there. Rob. Glouc., p. 394. AS-ARMES, (A.-N.) To arms! Asaught, 8. (4.-N.) An assault. Rob. Glouc. ASBATE, S. A purchase. Skinner. AS-BUIRD, S. Literally, ashes board; a box in which ashes are carried. North. ASCAPART. The name of a giant, whom Bevis of Hampton conquered, according to the old legend. His effigy may be seen on the city gates of Southampton. He was said to have been "full thirty feet long," and to have carried Sir Bevis, his wife, and horse, under his arm! He is al luded to by Shakespeare, Drayton, and other Elizabethan writers. (2) As if. And wroot the names alway, as he stood, Of alle folk that gaf hem eny good, Ascaunce that he wolde for hem preye. Chaucer, Cant. T., 7325. (3) Scarcely. Askauns she may nat to the lettres sey nay. Lydgate's Minor Poems, p. 35. ASCAUNT, prep. Across. There is a willow grows ascaunt the brook That shews his hoar leaves in the glassy stream. Hamlet, iv, 7. (early 4tos.) ASCENDANT, s. A term in judicial astrology, denoting that degree of the ecliptic, which is rising in the eastern part of the horizon at the time of any person's birth: supposed to have the greatest influence over his fortune. Commonly used metaphorically for influence in general, or effect. 'Tis well that servant's gone; I shall the easier Wind up his master to my purposes; A good ascendant. O. Pl., vii, 137. ASCENT, s. See Assent. ASCH-CAKE, s. A cake baked under ashes. ASCHE, v. To ask. This form oc curs chiefly in MSS. of the 14th cent. The word had soft forms in A.-S., ahsian. See Ass. ASCHES, S. Ashes. See Ass. ASCHEWELE, v. (A.-S. ascalian, to send away). To drive away. An hwanne heo habeth me ofslahe, Hule and Nyghtingale, 1. 1601. ASCHONNE, v. To shun; to avoid. They myzte not aschonne the sorowe they had served. Deposition of Richard II, p. 14. ASCHORE, adv. (A.-S. on cyrre.) Aside. A moneth after mon myghtte hom a ffond, Lyand styll on the grownd, Thei myght noder ryde ne goo. Ever after the dogges wer so starke, Thei stode aschore when thei schuld barke; Her feytt thei drew hom soo. Hunttyng of the Hare, 1. 256. |