At Londone he was ibore, ac an eldore brother ther was. Chron. p. 468. A.-S. aec, eac, Moes-G. auk, Alem. auh, Su.-G. och, ock, Belg. ook, id. This seems the imper. of the v. signifying to add, A.-S. eac-an, Moes-G. auk-an, &c. Lat. ac corresponds. [Isl. old oc, modern og, old.] ACCEDENS, 8. A term used in reference to rent in money. -"Of the first accedens that cumis in the Den [Dean] of gildis handis." Aberd. Reg. V. xvi. p. 525. MS. L. B. Accidentia is expl. as equivalent to escaeta, or E. escheat; Du Cange. I hesitate, however, whether it should not be traced to Lat. accedere, to come to, as denoting the first sum that the Dean should get into his hands. Thus the phrase is pleonastic. ACCEDENT, 8. An accession, or casualty. "About this time the earl of Stirling departed this life at London, who for all his court and accedents left no great estate nor means free behind him." Spalding, i. 217. V. ACCEDENS. To ACCLAME, v. a. To lay claim to, to demand as one's right. "That quha that persewes not within the said space, thay, thair airis, executouris, or assignayis, sall neuer be hard to persew the samin-notwithstanding quhatsumeuer iurisdictioun, priuilegeis, lawis or constitutiounis, quhilkis the saidis persounis, or ony of thame had, hes, or may pretend, or acclame, as grantit be our said souerane Lady," &c. Acts Mary 1563. Ed. 1814, p. 537. "The Commissioner's G.-protested that the said act-is contraire to the perpetuall custome, and never acclamed befoir." Acts Cha. I. Ed. 1814, V. 282. Acclamyt, claimed, occurs frequently in Aberd. Reg. MS. L. B. acclam-are, idem quod Clamare, vendicare, asserere. Acclamer quelque chose. Acclamavit ipsa jure hereditario has supradictas terras. Sim. Dunelm. V. Du Cange. ACCOMIE, ACCUMIE, 8. A species of mixed metal, S. The term is used by that miserable writer, Scot of Satchell, when describing the reliques of the celebrated Michael Scot. His writing pen did seem to me to be ACCUMIE PEN, 8. A metallic pencil employed for writing on tablets, S. ACCORD, v. n. As accords, an elliptical phrase, commonly used in our legal deeds, sometimes fully expressed thus, as accords of lato, i. e. as is agreeable, or conformable to law. This in some respect corresponds with the phrase as effeiris. But the latter has a more extended signification, being used to denote any thing proportional, convenient, fitting, becoming, &c. as well as conformity. As effeirs of law never occurs, although as accords is frequently used in this form in deeds and judicial proceedings. ACCOUNT, 8. To lay one's account with, to assure one's self of, to make up one's mind to, anything, S. This, according to Dr. Beattie, is a Scotticism. "I counsel you to lay your account with suffering." Walker's Peden, p. 56. ACE, 8. 1. The smallest division of any thing, Orkn. 2. A single particle, ibid. Isl. dss, unitas in tessera seu talis; monas; G. Andr., Verel., Haldorson. ACE, 8. Ashes, S. V. As, Ass. To ACHERSPYRE, v. n. To sprout, to germinate. This term is used concerning barley, when in the state of being made into malt. It has been generally understood as applicable to the barley, when it shoots at both ends. But as the word is still commonly used in Scotland, I am informed by those who should be best acquainted with it, that the barley is said to acherspyre not when it shoots at both ends, but when it shoots at the higher extremity of the grain, from which the stalk springs up; as it is the acherspyre that forms the stalk. When the seed germinates at the lower end, from which the root springs, it is said to come. V. COME. In the operation of malting, the barley invariably observes the natural course. It shoots first at the lower end, a considerable time before it acherspyres. Ere this take place, the roots are sometimes about an inch in length. As soon as the acherspyre appears, the malt is reckoned fit for the kiln. The maltsters do not wish the stalk-germ to appear even above the point of the seed, lest it should be too much weakened. Hence the following complaint against those who had been careless in this respect: "They let it acherspyre, and shute out all the thrift and substance at baith the ends, quhere it sould come at ane end onely." Chalmerlan Air, ch. 26. From the mode of expression here used, the term, which properly denotes one germination only, has been understood as including both; especially as acherspyring is the last of the two. For the grain, when allowed to acherspyre to any considerable degree, indeed "shutes out all the thrift and substance at baith ends," because it has formerly come at the lower end. I strongly suspect indeed that the word come, as used by Skene, is to be understood at least in the general sense of springing. Skinner supposes that the word is compounded of A.-S. aecer, corn, and E. spire, a sharp point. As A.-S. aechir signifies an ear of corn, (spica, Lye), the word may have been formed from this, or Su. G. aakar corn, and spira, which denotes the projection of any thing that is long and slender. Douglas uses echeris for ears of corn. In the Lyfe of St. Werburge, spyre occurs in the sense of twig or branch. Warton's Hist. P. II. 183. Ackerpril, a potatoe with roots at both ends; Lancash. Gl. A. Bor. V. ECHER. Dr. Johns. quotes Mortimer, as using acrospire in the same sense with the S. word; also acrospired as a participle. This he derives from Gr. axpos, summus, the highest, and repa, spira. But oripa denotes a roundel or circle, a coil of ropes, &c. and does not, like Goth. spira, refer to a sharp point. Acrospire seems to have been lately imported into the E. language, It was unknown to Minsheu, although mentioned in Kersey's edition of Phillips. It may be added that O. E. spyer signifies to shoot out in an ear, as a blade of corn. "I spyer, as corne dothe whan it begynneth to waxe rype. Je espie. This wheate spyereth fayre, God saue it." Palsgr. B. iii. F. 369, a. ACHERSPYRE, 8. The germination of malt at that end of the grain from which the stalk grows, S. V. the v. ACHIL, adj. Noble. V. ATHIL. To ACK, v. a. To enact. V. ACT, v. ACKADENT, 8. Expl. "A spirituous liquor resembling rum," Ayrs.; apparently the corr. of some foreign designation beginning with Aqua. ACKER-DALE, adj. Divided into single acres, or small portions. "He-orders his affaires in Gillmertoune, from which lands he reaped as much benefite-as he did from any other of his barronies,-being all of it in acker-dale land (except the Drum and Gutters, duely payed), because of the neer neighbourhead of the toune of Edinburgh." Memorie of the Somervills, i. 168. A.-S. aecer, an acre, and dael-an, to divide. V. FREITH, v. sense 3. ACLITE, ACKLYTE, adv. side, Roxb.; synon. Agee, S. Awry, to one Isl. Alit signifies devexitas, and A.-S. hlithe jugum montis. But perhaps the word is merely a corrup tion, q. a-gleyd. V. GLEY'D, oblique. ACORNIE, . Apparently, a drinking vessel with ears or handles; perhaps the same with Quaich. "Item, a silver cup, with silver acornie and horn spoons and trenchers." Depred. on the Clan Campbell, p. 80. Fr. acorné, horned, having horns. ACQUAINT, part. adj. Acquainted, pronounced as if acquent, S. acquant, S. B. It occurs in the metrical version of the Psalms used in S. No swaging his raging Micht mitigate or meis: Sic badness and madness, Throw kind, he did acqueis. Burel's Pilg. Watson's Coll. ii. 19. Formed from Fr. acquis, acquise, part. Lat. arquisitus, acquired. To ACQUIET, v. a. 1. To quiet, to bring to a state of tranquillity. "Becaus thair hes bene greit abusioune of justice in the northt partis,—the pepill ar almaist gane wilde, — it is tharefor statut for the acquietting of the pepill be justice that thair be in tyme to cum Justicis and scheriffis deput in thai partis," &c. Acts Ja. IV. 1503, Ed. 1814, p. 249. 2. To secure. "In the causs persewit be Cuthbert Menyeis of Achinsel aganis Robert Menyeis of the Ennoch-to werrand, acquiet, and defend, to the said Cuthbert & his airis the landis of Achinsell," &c. Act. Dom. Conc. A. 1489, p. 133. L. B. acquiet-are, quietum seu securum reddere, from quietus. Fr. acquiter une terre, "to quiet a peece of land, to rid it from suits, trouble, and controversie, by recovering, or delivering, it from such as usurped it; to cleere the title thereof." Cotgr. To ACQUITE, v. a. This has been understood as signifying to revenge. But it is very doubtful. "He exhortit his men to haue curage, set asyd al dredour (gif thay had ony) remembring the gret spreit and manheid of thair eldaris, that thay may acquite thair deith; and thocht thay faucht with vnfortunat chance of battal, that thay be nocht vnreuengit of thair ennymes." Bellend. Cron. B. 6, c. 13. Ingentesque spiritus auitae virtutis recordati resumerent: cauerentque ne, si forsitan aduersante Marte moriendum foret, inulti occumberent. Boeth. It is not the death of ancestors that was to be avenged, but their own death, if they should fall in battle. ACRE, 8. "An old sort of duel fought by single combatants, English and Scotch, between the frontiers of their kingdom, with sword and lance." Cowel's Law Dict. In the Annals of Burton, A. 1237, we find a complaint, that in the diocese of Carlisle, even the abbots and priors, when challenged by any belonging to the kingdom of Scotland, were wont Acram committere inter fores utriusque regni. Cowel conjectures that, "as this judicial sort of duelling was called camp-fight, and the combatants champions, from the open field that was the stage of tryal, aecer among the Saxons being the same with campus, the borderers on Scotland, who best retained the Saxon dialect, called such Camp-fight, Acre-fight, and sometimes simply Acre." It does not appear, however, that there is any affinity between Lat. camp-us as denoting a plain, and A.S. camp, certamen, bellum. The monkish writers might indeed think that they were originally the same, and thus substitute Acra, denoting a plain or level field, for camp, as if the latter had been originally synonymous. I have met with no other proof of this use of the term. It corresponds in so far, however, with that of Isl. and Su.-G. hólmr, which literally signifies a riverisland; but, as being the place generally chosen for single combat, was hence used to denote the place of combat: Campus, in circulum baculis inclusus, quem sibi describebant in certamen singulare descensuri, forte exinde, quod in more positum erat veteribus, insulas ejusmodi duellis eligere, ut ignavo omnis elabendi via præcluderetur. Ihre, vo. Holme. Hence hólmganga, descensus ad certamen. ACRE-BRAID, 8. The breadth of an acre, S. ACRER, 8. A very small proprietor, S. A. "£54,097: 7:3 belongs to lesser commoners, including those small proprietors known by the provincial name of acrerers [L. acrers], portioners, and feuars." Agr. Surv. Roxb. p. 15. To ACRES, ACCRESCE, v. n. 1. To increase, to gather strength. Ay the tempest did acres, And na was lykin to grow les Bot rather to be mair. Burel's Pilg. Watson's Coll. ii. 31. Fr. Accrois-tre, id. accroist, increase. Lat. accrescere. 2. This term is still used in our law, as expressing that one species of right or claim flows from, and naturally falls to be added to, its principal. "Accresce-denotes the accession of one part, to the property of another part; as, when a person dispones the property of any subject, whatever right afterwards befalls to him or his heirs, accresces to the purchaser, as if it had been in his person when he disponed." Spottiswoode's Law Dict. MS. То Аск, To ACT, ACK, v. a. To require by judicial authority; nearly the same with E. enact, with this difference, that there is a transition from the deed to the person whom it regards; an old forensic term, S. "Seing I am actit in the buikis of the said committee not to depairt aff the towne without licence--I am heavilie damnefied," &c. Acts Cha. I. Ed. 1814, V. 361. "That Thomas Kenedy of Bargeny be ackit to content & pay to the saidis William & Marioune the soume of twentj li for certane merchandiss & lent siluer aucht to the said vmqhuile Schir Patrik be the said Thomas." Act. Dom. Conc. A. 1491, p. 221. "The said Robert grantit, in presens of the lordis, that he haid causit the said Adam to be akkit in the officialis buk for the soume of je merkis," &c. Act. Dom. Conc. A. 1493, p. 310. ACTENTIKLY, adv. Authentically. -"The first gift-was maid be vmqhuile our souerane lord-in the tendir and nonage of the said vmquhile our souerane lord, and was thareftir reuokit; and na new gift, confirmacioun, nor infeftment actentikly gevin agane sene the said reuocacioun." Act. Dom. Conc. A. 1478, p. 31. ACTION SERMON, the designation commonly given in S. to the sermon which precedes the celebration of the ordinance of the Supper. This has been generally viewed as referring to the action of symbolically eating the body and blood of the Saviour. By some, however, it has been supposedl that it may have been borrowed from the Fr. phrase for thanksgiving, Action de graces. The following day in S. is commonly called the Thanksgiving Day. ACTIOUN, 8. Affairs, business, interest. "Yit sa far as pertenis to our actioun, consider that our ennymes are to fecht aganis ws, quhome we neuir offendit with iniuris." Bellend. Cron. B. 6, c. 17. Quod ad rem nostram maxime attinet. Boeth. ACTON, 8. A leathern jacket, strongly stuffed, anciently worn under a coat of mail. Our historian Lesly describes it as made of leather. Lorica hamis ferreis conserta muniebantur, hanc tunicae coriaceae non minus firmae, quam eleganti (nostri Acton dicunt) superinduerunt. De Orig. Mor. et Gest. Scot. Lib. i. p. 53. According to Caseneuve, the auqueton was anciently a doublet stuffed with cotton, well pressed and quilted, which military men wore under their coats of mail; and, in latter times under their cuirasses, for more effectually resisting the stroke of a sword or lance. Grose says that it was "com. posed of many folds of linen, stuffed with cotton, wool, or hair quilted, and commonly covered with leather made of buck or doe skin." Milit. Antiq. ii. 248. "It is statute, that induring the time of weir, that ilk laick landed man haueand ten punds in gudes and geir, sall haue for his bodie, and for defence of the Realme, ane sufficient Acton, ane basnet, and ane gloue of plate, with ane speare and sword. Quha hes not ane Acton and basnet; he sall haue ane gude habirgeon, and ane gude irn Jak for his bodie; and ane irn knapiskay, and gloues of plate." 1. Stat. Rob. I. ch. 26. Fr. Hoqueton; O. Fr. auqueton, haucton; Germ. hockete; L. B. Aketon, acton. Matthew Paris calls it Alcalto. Caseneuve contends that its proper name is alcoto, which he whimsically supposes to be formed of Arab. al and coto cotton; adding, that auqueton anciently signified cotton, for which he quotes various authorities. Du Cange inclines to derive the term from C. B. actuum, given by Boxhorn, as signifying, lorica dupla, duplodes. But the most probable derivation is that of M. Huet, mentioned Dict. de Trev. He views Fr. hoqueton as a diminutive from hoque and hougue, which occur in Monstrelet. Ces grands clercs ses rouges huques. Huque, he supposes, was used for huche, which denoted a piece of female dress. The word, he adds, is Flemish. Belg. huyk is an old kind of cloak, which in former times was worn by women. Most probably, however, the word was not restricted to female dress. For Kilian renders huycke toga, pallium; q. d. hoedke, ab hoeden, i. e. a tuendo, sicut toga a tegendo. What favours this etymon from huycke, is that Fr. hoqueton is defined by Cotgr. "a short coat, cassock or jacket without sleeves, and most in fashion among the country people:"-Colobion, sagum, Dict. de Trev. In the XVth century, according to Lobineau, hoquet signified cotte d'armes. Thus, huyk denoting a cloak or mantle; its diminutives hoquet and hoqueton may have been primarily used to signify the jacket or short coat worn by peasants, and, in a secondary sense, a stuffed jacket for the purpose of defence. The phraseology used by French writers shews that the hoqueton was properly a piece of common dress. For Cotgr. calls "a souldier's cassock, or horseman's coat-armour," hoque. ton de guerre, ACTUAL, adj. An actual minister, sometimes an actual man; a phrase, still used by the vulgar, to denote one who is ordained to the office of the ministry, as distinguished from one who is merely licensed to preach; S. "The Bishop hath presented an actual minister, Mr George Henry, fit and qualified for the charge, now being, according to the Act of Parliament, fallen into his hand, jure devoluto." Wodrow's Hist. i. 181. Q. in actu; L. B. actus, officium, ministerium; Du Cange. I find this term has the sanction of Parliament. "The deane of the said chaptoure, with samony of thame as salhappin to be assembled, sall proceid and chuse the persoun quhome his maiestie pleased to nominat and recommend to their electioun; he alwayis being an actuall minister of the kirk, and sall elect none vther then ane actual minister to be so nominat and recomendit be his maiestye as said is." Acts. Ja. VI. 1617, Ed. 1814, p. 529. Here we have a congé d'elire without any disguise. ADAM'S WINE, a cant phrase for water as a beverage, our first father being supposed to have known nothing more powerful, S. "Some take a mutchkin of porter to their dinner, but I sloken my drowth wi' Adam's wine." Sir A. Wylie, i. 107. ADDER-BEAD, 8. The stone supposed to be formed by adders, Nithsdale. Ye maun sleeve-button't wi' twa adder-beads, Wi' unchristened fingers maun plait down the breeds. Remains Nithsdale Song, p. 111. V. BEAD. ADDER-STANE, 8. The same with Adder-bead, S. "The glass amulets or ornaments are, in the Lowlands of Scotland, called Adder-stanes, and by the Welsh Gleini na Droedh, or Druid-glass, which is in Irish Glaine nan Druidhe, glaine in this language signifying glass, tho' obsolete now in the Welsh dialect, and preserved only in this Gleini na Droedh.-The two last kinds [of monuments of the worship of the Druids, of glass, and of earth bak'd extremely hard], were ornaments or magical gems, as were also those of chrystal and agat, either perfectly spherical or in the figure of a lentil." Toland's Hist. of the Druids, Lett. I. § 16. "The very same story is told of the Adder-stanes [in the Lowlands of Scotland] which Pliny relates of the Druid's Egg, without the omission of one single circumstance." Ibid. Notes, p. 273. ADDETTIT, part. pa. Indebted. I that was by enuy and haitrent Of myne awne pepil with thare hale assent Expellit from my sceptre and my ryng, And was addettit for my misdoing Unto our cuntré to haue sufferit pane. Doug. Virgil, 351, 7. i.e. I owed it, debueram, Virg. Fr. endebté, id. ADDLE, adj. Foul; applied to liquid substances; "an addle dub," a filthy pool, Clydes. ADE, ADIE, 8. Abbreviations of Adam, and pron. Yedie, South of S. 44 'Ade Bell.-Ade Graham." Acts 1585. III. 391. 393. Adie Bell, 392. "Weel," quo' she, "my life, my Adie, ADEW, gone, departed, fled. And like as that the wyld wolf in his rage, Doug. Virgil, 394, 37. Used as an adj. in an oblique sense, from Fr. adieu, which sometimes approaches pretty near to this. Adieu est aussi un terme de commandement, de chagrin, ou de refus, lorsqu'on chasse, ou congédie quelqu' un. Apage te. Dict de Trev. ADEW, part. pa. Done. On Kertyngaym a straik chosyn he hais In the byrnes, that polyst was full brycht; The punyeand hed the plattys persit rycht, Throuch the body stekít him but reskew; Derfly to dede that chyftane was adew; Baithe man and horss at that strak he bar down. Wallace, vii. 1199. MS. It has been suggested, that Kertyngaym should be read Kercyngaym in MS.; the name of the person being Cressingham. This is not, like the preceding, a figurative use of Fr. adieu; but from A.-S. adoa, facere, adon, tollere; God thanon ado to heora agnum lande; God thenceforth took away their own land. Oros. iii. 5. ap. Lye. ADHANTARE, 8. One who haunts a place. “Vaigaris, adhantaris of aillhoussis,” &c. Ab. Reg. ADHEILL, 8. That district in S. now called Athol. This is the old orthography. I wate weile That thar the erle wes of Adheill. Barbour, iv. 62. The same in MS. In Wallace it is Adell. Accord ing to Garnett, "Adh signifies happiness or pleasure, and oll great (as Blair a plain clear of woods), so that Blair-adh-oll," the name of the fine valley extending from Blair Castle to Dunkeld, "probably means the great pleasant plain; which is very descrip. tive of it." Tour, II. 44. ADIENCE. To gie adience, to make room; as, to give a wall adience, not to confine it in its extent, Fife. It is viewed as synon. with S. scouth. L. B. adjenc-iae is used for adjacentiae, appendices. Dedit-dictae villae intus et extus, & totius territorii aisanciarum (easements), adjenciarum & pertinenciarum ejusdem; Du Cange. Fr. adjanc-er signifies to set fitly, to match duly, to put handsomely together. ADILL, ADDLE, 8. 1. Foul and putrid water. As on the altaris, birnand full of sence, 2. The urine of black cattle, Renfrews. Hence, To addle, v. a. to water the roots of plants with the urine of cattle, ibid. E. addle occurs only as an adj., “originally applied to eggs," says Dr. Johnson, "and signifying such as produce nothing." He derives it from A.-S. adel, a disease. But A.-S. adl has also the sense of tabum, filthy gore; Teut. adel, filth, mire. The same word, among the Ostrogoths, and in other parts of Sweden, denotes the urine of cattle. Ihre observes, that C. B. addail signifies faeces: and, according to Davies, C. B. kadl is marcidus, patris. Su.-G. adl-a, mejere. ADIORNALE, ADJOURNAL, Acte of, 8. The designation given to the record of a sentence passed in a criminal cause; a forensic term, S. -"The saidis personis to bring with thame and produce befor my said lord Gouernour and thre estatís of parliament the pretendit acte of Adiornale, sentence, and proces of forfaltour,-decernand that the said Jhone Lord Glammis had committit art and part of the consiling and nocht reueling of the conspiratioune and imaginatioune in the distructioune of vmquhile our souirane lordis maist nobill persoune of gude mynd, quhem God assolye, be pusoune [poison], emaginate and conspirit be vmquhile Jonet Lady Glammis his moder," &c. Acts Mary 1542, Ed. 1814, p. 420. Sometimes the term occurs by itself. -"As at mair lenth is contenit in the said process, adiornale, decrete, convict, and dome of foirfaltour foirsaid." Ibid. p. 577. It seems also used as equivalent to register. "Ordanis lettres to be direct chargeing all sic personis as ar or salbe fund in registeris or adiornall, standand denunceit rebellis, and at the horne-to compeir personalie," &c. Acts Ja. VI. 1590, p. 525. The books in which these justiciary records are contained are called the Books of Adjournal. Whether the term originated from the power of the court to adjourn from time to time, I cannot pretend to deter mine. "Tha had adiornist him tharfor as insufficient stuf." Aberd. Reg. A. 1545, v. 20. Fr. adjourn-er, L. B. adjorn-are, id. ADIST, prep. On this side. ་་ "I wish you was neither adist her, nor ayont her." S. Prov. 'Spoken to them who jeer you with some woman that you have an aversion to." Kelly, p. 399. It might seem allied to Germ. diss, hoc, with a prefixed, as equivalent to on; thus signifying, on this (supply) side. It is pron. adiest, Ayrs., and is differently expl., as signifying, on that side; being opposed to anniest, which is rendered, on this side, and applied to the object that is nearest. It indeed seems merely A.-S. on neawiste, in vicinia, prope ad, Bed. v. 12, from neah, near, nigh; formed like E. aside, from on side, &c. This word is not only pron. adist, but athist Dumfr. ADMINICLE, 8. Collateral proof. "Quhilkis writtis being-maliciouslie obscurit, gif thai be falss, quhill proces of tyme, deceiss of parties, wittnessis, and writtaris, tak away all alminicles of improbatioun," &c. Acts J. VI. 1598, Ed. 1814, p. 184. "When it is to be proved by the testimony of witnesses, the pursuer ought, in the general case, to produce some adminicle in writing, i. e. some collateral deed referring to that which was lost, in order to found the action," &c. Ersk. Inst. B. iv. tit. 1, sec. 55. Fr. adminicule, help, aid, support. "I remit you-particularly to these two defences of an extrajudicial confession, and the promise of life given to me thereupon by the chancellor;-upon the verity whereof I am content to die, and ready to lay down my life; and hope your charity will be such to me, a dying man, as not to mistrust me therein, especially since it is so notoriously adminiculate by an act of secret council, and yet denied upon oath by the principal officers of State present in council at the making of the said act." Crookshank's Hist. i. 381. Lat. adminicul-ari, to prop, to support. To ADNULL, v. a. To abrogate, to annul. "That our soverane lord, with avise of his thre estatis, will adnull all sic thingis." Acts Ja. IV. 1489, Ed. 1814, p. 222. -"All his blunt boultis and pithles artelyerie ar schot, to infirm and adnull his awin cause rather than to strenthe the samin." N. Winyet's Quest. Keith, App. p. 222. Lat. adnull-are, from ad and null-us. ADOIS, ADOES, ADDOIS, 8. pl. 1. Business, affairs. It is frequently used in this sense, Aberd. Reg. MS. "Thai wer directit be his Maiestie to returne within this realme ffor certane his Maiesties speciall adois within the same." Acts Ja. VI. 1592, Ed. 1814, p. 568. "They directit Capitane Wauchop with his band toward Aberdiene, be sea, to Adame Gordoun, lieutennent in the north for the queene, to supplie him in his addois." Hist. James the Sext, p. 1682. This is merely the pl. of E. ado; which, as far as I have observed, occurs, in that language, only in the singular. In S. it is scarcely ever used except in pl. Dr. Johns. has said that this is formed "from the v. to do, with a before it, as the Fr. affaire from a and faire." But Mr. Todd has justly remarked that the origin is A.-S. ado-a facere. 2. It is very commonly used as denoting difficulties, like E. ado; as, "I had my ain adoes," i.e. peculiar difficulties, S. To ADORNE, v. a. To worship, to adore. "Bot vtterly this command forbiddis to mak ymagis to that effeck, that thai suld be adornit & wirschippit as goddis, or with ony godly honour, the quhilk sentence is expremit be thir wordis; Non adorabis ea neque coles; Thow sall nocht adorne thame nor wirschip thame as goddis." Arbp. Hamiltoun's Catechisme, Fol. 23, b. ADOW. Naething adow, worth little or nothing, Roxb. From the v. Dow, to be able, A.-S. dug-an, prodesse, valere. ADRAD, part. adj. Afraid, Upp. Clydes. A.-S. adraed-an, timere. ADRAD, part. pa. Afraid, Gl. Sibb. Chaucer, adrad, adradde, A.-S. adraed-an, timere. |