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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._
