AT, _p.r.o.n._ That, which.
_Wyntown._
AT ALL, _adv._ "Altogether," Rudd.; perhaps, at best, at any rate.
_Douglas._
ATANIS, ATTANIS, ATANYS, ATONIS, _adv._ At once; S. at _ainze_.
V. ~Anis~, ~Anys~.
_Gawan and Gol._
ATCHESON, ATCHISON, _s._ A billon coin, or rather copper washed with silver, struck in the reign of James VI., of the value of eight pennies Scots, or two-thirds of an English penny.
_Ruddiman._
From the name of the a.s.say-master of the mint.
ATHARIST, Houlate III. 10.
V. ~Citharist~.
ATHE, AITH, AYTHE, _s._ An oath; plur. _athis_.
_Barbour._
Moes. G. _aith_, A. S. _ath_, Precop. _eth_, Isl. _aed_, Su. G.
_ed_, Dan. and Belg. _eed_, Alem. and Germ. _eid_, juramentum.
ATHER, _conj._ Either.
V. ~Athir~.
_R. Bruce._
ATHIL, ATHILL, HATHILL, _adv._ n.o.ble, ill.u.s.trious.
_Houlate._
A. S. _aethel_, n.o.bilis; whence _Aetheling_, _Atheling_, a youth of the blood royal; Su. G. _adel_, id.; _adling_, juvenis n.o.bilis; deduced from ancient Gothic _aelt_, kindred. C. B. _eddyl_ is also equivalent to Lat. gens, cognatio.
ATHIL, HATHEL, _s._ A n.o.ble prince, a man, an ill.u.s.trious personage; plur. _athilles_, (erroneously _achilles_,) _hatheles_.
_Sir Gawan and Sir Gal._
ATHIR, ATHYR, _p.r.o.n._
1. Either, whichsoever.
_Wyntown._
2. Mutual, reciprocal.
_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._
A. S. _aegther_, uterque.
V. ~Either~.
ATHORT, _prep._ Through, S.; _athwart_, E.
V. ~Thortour~.
_Baillie._
ATHORT, _adv._ Abroad, far and wide.
_Baillie._
ATIR, EATIR, _s._ Gore, blood mixed with matter.
_Douglas._
A. S. _ater_, _aetter_, _aettor_; Alem. _eitir_, Isl. and Germ.
_eiter_, Su. G. _etter_, venenum; from Alem. _eit-en_, to burn.
ATO, _adv._ In twain.
_Sir Tristrem._
A. S. _on twa_, in duo.
ATOUR, _s._ Warlike preparation.