AURE-HIET, pret. t. Overtook.

He prekut oute prestely, And aure-hiet him radly. Robson's Met. Rom., p. 66. AURIFIED, part. p. (Lat.) Made pure as gold. AURIGATION, 8. (Lat.) The practice of driving carriages. AURRUST, 8. Harvest. Worc. AURSELS, pron. Ourselves. North. AURUM-MULICUM, S. A compo

sition mentioned in some early documents relating to the arts. AURUM-POTABILE, s. A medicine said to have possessed great powers.

And then the golden oyle called aurumpotabile,

A medicine most mervelous to preserve mans health.

Ashmole's Theat. Chem., p. 422.

AUSE, (1) v. (A.-N.) To try; to promise favorably. See Aust. (2) conj. Also.

AUSIER, S. An osier. Suffolk. AUSNEY, v. To anticipate bad news. Somerset.

AUSPICATE, adj. (Lat.) Auspicious. AUSPICIOUS, adj. Joyful.

Aust, v. To attempt; to dare. Leic. and Warw. Also used as

IIe lies at Wynchestre, beside an autere. Langtoft, p. 20. AUTHENTIC, adj., "seems to have been the proper epithet for a physician regularly bred or li censed. The diploma of a licenti ate runs authenticè licentiatus." To be relinquished of Galen and Paracelsus

And all the learned and authentic fellows. Shakesp., All's W. that Ends W., ii, 3.

Or any other nutriment that by the judgment of the most authentical physicians, where I travel, shall be thought dangerous.

Jonson, Every Man out of H., iv, 4. AUTHER, adj. Either. AUTOLOGY, S. (Gr.) A soliloquy. AUTOMEDON, s. The charioteer of Achilles; hence the early dramatists applied the name generally to a coachman. AUTONOMY, S. (Gr.) Liberty to live after one's own laws. This word occurs in Cockeram's English Dictionarie, 1639.

AUTOPON! interj. Out upon!

North.

AUTORITY, S. Authority. North.

AUTOUR,

s. (A.-N.) (1) An au

AUCTOUR, thor. (2) An ancestor.

AUTREMITE, S. Explained by Skinner, another attire. Tyrwhitt reads vitremite.

And she that helmid was in starke stouris,
And wan by force tounis strong and touris,
Shall on her hedde now werin autremite.
Chaucer, ed. Urry, p. 1
AUTURGY, 8. (Gr. αὐτουργία.)
Work done by one's self; the
work of one's own hand.
AUVE, s. The helve or handle of
an axe. Shropsh.

AUVERDRO, V. To overthrow. West.

AUVERGIT, v. To overtake, West,

AUVERLOOK, v. To overlook; to look upon with the evil eye; to bewitch. West. AUVERRIGHT. Across. A West Country word.

Iz vather in a little cot

Liv'd, auverright tha moor,
An thaw a kipt a vlock o' geese,
A war a thoughted poor.
Jennings' Dialects, p. 109.

AUVISE, 8. Counsel; advice. For
avise.
AUWARDS, adv. Awkward; athwart.
North. Sheep are said to be
auwards, when they lie backward
so as to be unable to rise.
AVA', adv. At all. North.
AVACH, v. To avouch. Beds.
AVAGE, 8. A rent or duty which
every tenant of the manor of
Writtel, in Essex, paid to the
lord on St. Leonard's day, for the
liberty of feeding his hogs in the
woods. Phillips.
AVAIL, S. (A.-N.) Value; profit;
advantage; produce.

The avail of the marriage cannot be craved but at the perfect yeares of the apparent heir, because he cannot pay the avail, but by giving security of his landes. Hope's Minor Practicks, 48. Quoth he, "Fayre maye, yet I you pray, Thus much at my desyer Vouchsafe to doo, as goe him too, And saye, an Austen fryar Woulde with him speake, and maters breake

For his avayle certaine."

A Mery Jest of a Sergeaunt.

But when they came in sight,
And from their sweaty coursers did avale.
Spens., F. Q., II, ix, 10.

(2) To lower; to let down.
Sometimes abridged to vale, as in
the phrase "to vale the bonnet,"
to lower the bonnet, or take off
the hat.

He wold avale nowther hood ne hat,
Ne abyde no man for his curtesye.
Chaucer, C. T., 3124.

(3) To assault. Skinner. AVAN, adj. Filthy; squalid. Northampt. AVANCE, (4.-N.) (1) v. To advance; to profit. See Avaunce. (2) s. Advancement.

AVANCE, 8. (A.-N.) The herb AVANS, harefoot, which was AVENS, formerly much used in cookery.

Costmarie and avens are verie pleasant hearbes to give a savour like spice in pottage and salads.

Markham, Countrie Farme, ed. 1616. AVANCEMENT, 8. Advancement. AVANG, S. A strap, or stay to

which the girt is buckled; a whang; the iron strap under the lap of the saddle to which the stirrup-leather is fastened. Devon. AVANSE, v. To escape from.

For any cas that may betyde, Schall non therof avanse. Cokwold's Daunce, 165. AVANTAGE, S. Advantage. AVANT-CURRIERS, s. pl. Winds from the east, so named by the sailors.

Etesii, windes blowing very stiffely for fortie daies together from the east, just about the dog-daies, called of mariners the avant-curriers.

Florio.

AVANTERS, s. pl. Portions of the

numbles of a deer, near the neck. AVANTMURE, S. (Fr.) The forewall of a town.

AVANT-PEACH, s. An early kind of peach.

AVANTWARDE, S. (A.-N.) The van-
ward of an army.
AVARDE, adj. Afraid.
AVAROUS, adj. (Lat.) Avaricious.

For it bireveth him the love that men
to him owen, and turnith it bakward
agayns al resoun, and makith that the
avarous man hath more hope in his
catel than in Jhesu Crist..... And ther
fore saith seint Poule, ad Ephes. that
an averous man is in the thraldom of
ydolatrie.
Chaucer, Persones T.
Avarouser, more avaricious.
Are no men avarouser than hii,
Whan thei ben avaunced.

Piers Ploughman, p. 26.

AVAST, interj. A sea term, meaning stop, hold, enough. AVAUNCE, v. (4.-N.) To advance. On Filip Valas fast cri thai,

Thare for to dwell and him avaunce. Minot's Poems, p. 4. And as the world hath sent you thes three, So he sendth me, Woorshypp, to avawnce your degré.

Play of Wit and Science, p. 34. AVAUNCERS, 8. (A.-N.) The horns of a buck.

Two braunches fyrste pawmyd he must have:

And foure avauncers the soth yf ye woll

save.

Book of St. Albans, ed. 1810, sig. D ii. AVAUNCY, V. To advance; to raise.

AVAUNT, (1) v. (4.-N.) To brag; to boast.

And by the way he chaunced to espy
One sitting idle on a sunny bank,
To whom avaunting in great bravery.
Spenser, F. Q., II, iíi, 6.

(2) 8. A boast.
(3) prep. Before.

The morow came, and forth rid this
marchaunt

To Flaunders ward, his prentis him
avaunt,

Till he to Bruges came full merily.
Chaucer, ed. Urry, p. 140.

(4) adv. Forward.

And with that worde came Drede avaunt, Whiche was abashed and in grete fere.

Rom, of the Rose, 3958.

(5) s. Dismissal. "To give her the avaunt." Henry VIII, ii, 3. AVAUNTANCE, s. Boasting. AVAUNTLAY, 8. (A.-N.) In the an

cient system of hunting, one or two couples of hounds were sent with a man to several points where the game was expected to pass. On the approach of the deer, these hounds were uncoupled. The term relay was applied to any of these sets of hounds; but those which, when a hart was unharboured, were a-head of him, were the avauntrelay, or, more usually, avauntlay. AVAUNTOUR, 8. A boaster.

Avauntour, is he that bosteth of the harm or of the bounté that he hath don. Chaucer, Persones T.

of constant occurrence in early writings.

(2) s. Evening. For eve.

The king ther stode with his meiné
On a palmesonnes ave.

Arthour and Merlin, p. 200. AVEARD, adj. Afraid. West. AVEAUNT, adj. Graceful; becoming.

AVE-BLOT, 8. A reckoning; a payment. Minsheu.

AVE-BOORDS, s. "Aubes, the short boords which are set into th' outside of a water-mills wheele; we call them ladles, or aveboords." Cotgrave.

AVEER, S. Property. See Aver. AVEISÉ, adj. Careful; wary. For avisé.

AVEL, (1) s. The awn or beard of barley. Norf. and Suff.

(2) v. (Lat. avello.) To tear away. AVELONG, adj. Elliptical; oval; oblong. "Avelong, oblongus." Prompt. P. It is still used in Suffolk, according to Moor, who

says that "workmen-reapers or mowers-approaching the side of a field not perpendicular or parallel to their line of work, will have an unequal portion to do, the excess or deficiency is called avellong work." AVELY, adj. Corn is said to be avely when a portion of the awns adhere to the grains, after it is dressed for the market. East. AVEN, S. Promise; appearance. Shropsh.

AVENAGE, S. (4.-N.) Tribute, or homage, consisting of oats, paid to the lord of the manor. AVENANT, (1) s. (4.-N.) Agreement; condition.

(2) adj. (A.-N.) Becoming;
graceful; agreeable.

Madame, sho said, had we that knyght,
That es so curtais and avenant.

Ywaine and Gawin, 1. 3885.

(3) adj. Accomplished; able;
valiant.

No dosyper nas so avenaunt
To stonde hys strok.

AVENANTLI,

AVENAUNTLICHE,

becomingly.

Octorian, 923. adv. Suitably; well;

who, in the household of the king, and of great barons, had the care of the provender for the horses. His duties are described in the Book of Curtasye as follows:

The aveyner schalle ordeyn provande good

won,

For tho lordys horsis everychon;
Thay schyn have two cast of hay,
A pek of provande on a day;
Every horse schalle so muche have

At racke and manger that standes with stave;

A maystur of horsys a squyer ther is,
Aveyner and ferour undur hym i-wys.
Those 3omen that olde sadels schyn have,
That schyn be last for knyzt and knave,
For yche a hors that ferroure schalle scho,
An halpeny on day he takes hym to:
Undur ben gromes and pages mony one,
That ben at wage everychone;
Som at two pons on a day,
And som at iij. ob. I zou say;
Mony of hem fotemen ther ben,

That rennen by the brydels of ladys schene.
AVENS, s. The plant herb benet.
AVENSONG, 8. Evening.

AVENT, interj. Avaunt!

AVENTAILE, S. (A.-N.) The moveable front to a helmet, but sometimes applied generally to the whole front of the helmet. AVENTE, v. (A.-N.) To open the aventaile for the purpose of breathing; to admit air to. And let hym bayte hym on the ground, And aventid hym in that stound. Torrent of Portugal, i, 1567. AVENTERS, S. Chance. See Aunters. AVENTOUR, (1) v. To venture. See Aunter.

(2) s. An adventurer. AVENTRE, v. (Ital.) To throw a spear.

Thenne this one knyght aventryd a grete spere, and one of the x. knyghtes encountred with hym, but this woul knyght smote hym so hard that he felle over his hors taylle.

Morte d'Arthur, i, 177. AVENTROUS, Ss. An adventurer.

As dooth an heraud of armes
Whan aventrous cometh to justes.

Piers Pl., p. 370.

AVENTURE, (1) s. Accident causing death. A law term. It is the generic term for chance in early writers. See Aunter.

(2) adv. Perchance. See Aunter. AVENTURLY, adv. Boldly. AVER, S. (4.-N.) (1) A man's personal property.

(2) 8. A work-horse, or other beast employed in farming. (3) adj. (conjectured to be the Icelandic apr.) Peevish. Northumb. AVERAGE, 8. (A.-N.) Manley, AVERISH, in his additions to Cowell, says that in the North of England this word is used for the stubble or remainder of straw and grass left in cornfields after the harvest is carried in. Boucher gives it as a Yorkshire word, meaning a course of ploughing in rotation. Carr explains it "winter eatage." AVER-CAKE, S. An oat-cake. AVERCORN, S. (1) Corn drawn to

the granary of the lord of the manor by the working cattle, or avers, of the tenants.

(2) A reserved rent in corn, paid by farmers and tenants to religious houses.

AVERE, 8. Property. See Aver.
AVERIL, 8. (4.-N.) April. A North

Country word. See the Popular
Rhymes, &c., of Scotland, by R.
Chambers, 8vo, Edinb., 1842,
p. 39, where the same form of
the word occurs in a rhyme
popular in Stirlingshire.
also an archaism.

It is

Averil is meory, and longith the day;
Ladies loven solas and play:
Swaynes, justes; knyghtis, turnay;
Syngith the nyghtyngale, gredeth theo jay.
K. Alisaunder, 1. 139.

AVERING, S. "When a begging boy strips himself and goes naked into a town with a fals story of being cold, and stript, to move compassion and get

better cloaths, this is call'd avering, and to goe a avering." Kennett, MS. Lansd. AVERISH, 8. The stubble and grass left in corn fields after harvest. North. See Average.

In these monthes after the cornne bee innede, it is meete to putt draughte horsses and oxen into the averish, and so lounge to continue there as the meate sufficeth, which will ease the other pastures they went in before.

Archæologia, xiii, 379. AVERLAND, S. Land ploughed by the tenants, with their cattle, or avers, for the use of a monastery, or of the lord of the soil. Cowell. AVEROUS, adj. Avaricious. Wickliffe renders Prov. i, 19, "of the averous man that is gredy of gain." See Avarous. AVEROYNE, S. (A.-N.) The herb southernwood.

AVERPENY, S. Average penny. This word occurs in Rider's Dictionarie, 1640. According to Cowell, it is money contributed towards the king's averages; and Rastall gives the same explanation.

AVERRAY, v. To aver; to instruct. AVERRUNCATE, v. (Lat. averrunco.) To root out, or extirpate; to

avert.

AVERRUNCATION, s. Extirpation. AVERSATION, 8. (Lat.) Aversion, great dislike to.

This almost universal aversation of the people had a natural influence upon the representative, the Parliament. Wilson's James I, 1653.

AVERSILVER, s. A custom or rent so called, originating from the cattle, or avers, of the tenants. AVERST, adv. At the first. AVERTY, adj. (A.-N. avertin.) Mad; fiery.

The respons were redy that Philip did tham bere.

A knyght fulle averty gaf tham this anPeter Langtoft, p. 260.

suere.