ALBLASTRIE, _s._ Apparently, the exercise of the cross-bow.

V. ~Awblaster~.

ALCOMYE, _s._ Latten, a kind of mixed metal still used for spoons.

Hence, _Accomie spunes_, spoons made of alchymy, S. B.

_Douglas._

From Fr. _alquemie_ or O. E. _alchymy_.

ALD, ALDE, AULD, _adj._ Old, S. Yorks. O. E. _ald_, id.

_Wyntown._

A. S. _eald_, Alem. _alt_, vetus; derived from A. S. _eald-ian_, to remain, to stay, to last, Alem. _alten_, to prolong.

_To_ ALEGE, _v. a._ To absolve from allegiance.

Fr. _alleg-er_, id.

_Wyntown._

ALEUIN, _adj._ Eleven.

_Complaynt S._

ALGAIT, ALGATE, ALGATIS, _adv._

1. Every way.

_Douglas._

2. At all events, by all means.

_Douglas._

O. E. _all gate_, R. Brunne; _all gates_, Chaucer. From _all_, and _gait_, or _gatis_, i. e. all ways.

ALHALE, ALHALELY, _adv._ Wholly, entirely.

_Douglas._

From _all_, and _hale_, _hail_, whole.

ALIENARE, _s._ A stranger.

_Douglas._

Lat. _alien-us_.

ALYA, ALLIA, ALLYA, ALLAY, _s._

1. Alliance.

_Wallace._

2. An ally.

_Acts Ja. VI._

3. Sometimes used as a plural noun, signifying allies.

_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._

Fr. _allie_, with a Saxon termination.

ALYAND, _part. pr._ Keeping close together.

_Wallace._

Fr. _alli-er_, to join, to knit.

_To_ ALYCHT, _v. a._ To enlighten.

_Douglas._

A. S. _alyht-an_, illuminare; _alyht-nysse_, illuminatio.

ALIST. _To come alist._ To recover from faintness or decay, applied both to animals and vegetables; to recover from a swoon, S. B.

_Ross._

Isl. _lios_, light; _aliost_, the dawn of day; _at koma i liosi_, to make manifest.

ALYTE, _adv._ A little.

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