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AUSTIE, _adj._ Austere, harsh.
_Henrysone._
A. S. _ostige_, knotty, from _ost_, Teut. _oest_, a knot, properly in wood.
_To_ AW, AWE, _v. a._ To owe, S.
_Wallace._
Isl. _aa_, _atte_, debeo, debuit; A. S. _ag_, _ahte_; Su. G. _a_; Moes. G. _aih_, habeo, imperf. _aiht-a_.
V. ~Aigh~, ~Aucht~.
AW, sometimes to be viewed as the third pers. sing. of the _v._; signifying owed, ought.
_Wallace._
_To_ AUCHT, AWCHT, AUGHT, _v. a._ To owe.
V. ~Aw~.
_Peblis to the Play._
AW, used for ~All~, S.
_Bannatyne P._
_Wyth aw_, withal.
_Douglas._
AWA, _adv._ Away; the general p.r.o.nunciation in S.
_Douglas._
_To_ AWAIL, AWAL, _v. a._
1. To let fall.
_Barbour._
2. To descend; used in a neuter sense.
_Wallace._
Fr. _aval-er_, to go, or fall, down; also, to let fall; Teut.
_af-vall-en_, decidere; _af-val_, casus; Su. G. _afal_, _affal_, lapsus.
_To_ AWAILL, AWAILYE, _v. n._ To avail.
_Barbour._
AWAY. This word seems to have been used occasionally as a verb.
_Barbour._
A. S. _aweg_, away, may be viewed as the imperat. of _awaeg-an_, to take away, or _awegg-an_, to depart.
AWAYMENTIS, _s. pl._ Consultations; Gl. Perhaps preparations, or preliminaries.
_Wyntown._
Perhaps from O. Fr. _avoy-er_, to put in train; _avoyment_, enquete, ouverture; de _via_; Gl. Roquefort.
AWALT SHEEP, one that has fallen backward, or downhill, and cannot recover itself, S.
V. ~Awail~.
_Gl. Sibb._
_To_ AWANCE, _v. a._ To advance.
Fr. _avanc-er_, id.
_Wallace._
AWAT, _s._ Ground ploughed after the first crop from lea. The crop produced is called the _awat-c.r.a.p_, also p.r.o.nounced _award_; Ang.
_Avil_, Galloway, _aewall_, Clydes. id.
A. S. _afed_, pastus, _af-at_, depastus; or Su. G. _awat_, _afat_, deficiens; or perhaps from _af-val_, diminution, as the same with ~Awalt~, q. v.
AWAWARD, _s._ The vanguard.
_Barbour._
Fr. _avantgarde_.