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_agena_, id.; also, a shoot or stalk.
AWP, WHAUP, _s._ The curlew, a bird, S.
V. ~Quhaip~.
_Gl. Sibb._
AWORTH, _adv._ "Worthily," Tytler.
_King's Quair._
A. S. _awyrth-ian_, glorificare.
AWRO, Probably _a wro_, a corner.
_Gl. Complaynt S._
Su. G. _wra_, p.r.o.n. _wro_, angulus.
AWS, AWES, _of a mill-wheel_, _s._ The buckets or projections on the rims which receive the shock of the water as it falls, S.
_Statist. Acc._
AWSK, _s._ The newt or eft.
V. ~Ask~.
AWSOME, _adj._ Appaling, awful, S. B.
_Rutherford._
AWSTRENE, _adj._ Stern, austere.
V. ~Asterne~.
_Henrysone._
Lat. _auster-us_, or A. S. _styrn_.
AWTAYNE, _adj._ Haughty.
_Wyntown._
O. Fr. _hautain_, grand, sublime, eleve, Gl. Roquefort; from Lat.
_alt-us_.
AWTER, _s._ An altar; Chaucer, id.
O. Fr. _autiere_, Lat. _altare_.
_Barbour._
_To_ AX, _v. a._ To ask, S. _Asched_, _axede_, asked; R. Glouc.
_Ruddiman._
A. S. _ahs-ian_, _ax-ian_, interrogare.
AXIS, ACKSYS, _s. pl._ Aches, pains. _Axes_, id. Orkn.
_King's Quair._
A. S. _aece_, dolor; _egesa_, horror; Moes. G. _agis_, terror.
AX-TREE, _s._ An axle-tree, S.
A. S. _eax_, _ex_; Alem. _ahsa_, Germ. _achse_, axis; perhaps from Isl. _ak-a_, to drive a chariot or dray, G. Andr.
AYONT, _prep._ Beyond, S.
_Ross._
A. S. _geond_ ultra, with a prefixed; or _on_, as _afield_, originally _on field_.
B
BAACH, _a._ Ungrateful to the taste.
V. ~Bauch~.
BABIE, BAWBIE, _s._ A copper coin equal to a halfpenny English, S.
