Chapter L: B. abatia, id

_Acts. Ja. III._

ABBOT OF UNREASON, a sort of histrionic character, anciently exhibited in Scotland, but afterwards forbidden by Act of Parliament.

_Acts Marie._

This was one of the Christmas sports; and, as the ancient _Saturnalia_ levelled all distinction of ranks, the design of this amusement was to ridicule the solemnity of the proceedings of an Abbot, or other dignified clergyman. It is the same with the _Abbot of Misrule_, and distinguished in name only from the _Boy-Bishop_, characters formerly well known both in England and in France. The principal personage was denominated the _Abbot of Unreason_, because his actings were inconsistent with _reason_, and merely meant to excite mirth.

ABEE. _To let abee._ To let alone, to bear with, not to meddle with, S.

_To let be_, E.

_Ritson._

ABEECH, ABIEGH, _adv._ Aloof, "at a shy distance," chiefly used in the west of S.

_Stand abeigh_, keep aloof.

_Burns._

Fr. _aboy_, O. Fr. _abai_, _abay_, _abbais_; E. _at bay_, O. E.
_abay_.

ABERAND, _part. pr._ Going astray.

Lat. _aberrans_, E. _aberring_.

_Bellenden._

_To_ ABHOR, _v. a._ To fill with horror.

_Lyndsay._

_To_ ABY, _v. a._ To suffer for.

O. E. _abeye_, _abie_. A. S. _byg-an_, to buy.

_Henrysone._

ABIL, _adj._ Able.

_Wyntown._

Lat. _habil-is_, Fr. _habile_, C. B. _abl_, Teut. _abel_, id.

ABIL, _adv._ Perhaps.

V. ~Able~.

ABYLL, _adj._ Liable, apt.

V. ~Abil~.

_Bellenden._

ABITIS, _s. pl._ Obits, service for the dead.

_Bannatyne Poems._

Lat. _obit-us_, death; also, office for the dead.

ABLACH, _s._ A dwarf, an expression of contempt, S. B.

_Gl. Shirrefs._

Gael. _abhach_, id.

ABLE, ABLIS, ABLINS, _adv._ Perhaps, peradventure, S. _Yeable-sea_, id.

_Montgomery._

A. S. _abal_, Isl. and Su. G. _afl_, strength, properly that of the
body; _afl-as_, to be _able_.

ABLINS, _adv._

V. ~Able~.

ABOWYNE, ABONE, ABOW, _prep._ Above, S. Yorks. Westmorel.

_Barbour._

A. S. _abufan_, id. The radical term is evidently _ufan_, supra.

_To_ ABREDE, _v. a._ To publish, to spread abroad.

_Gl. Sibb._

A. S. _abraed-an_, propalare.

_To_ ABREDE, _v. n._ To start, to fly to a side. Chauc. _abraide_, id.

_Henrysone._

ABREID, ABRADE, ABREAD, _adv._ Abroad, at large, S.

_Burel._

A. S. _abred-an_, extendere, or Isl. _a braut_, forth, in via.

ABSTINENCE, _s._ A truce, cessation of arms.

_Spotswood._

Fr. id. L. B. _abstinentia_.

AB-THANE, ABTHANE, _s._

V. ~Thane~.

ABULYEIT, ABULYEID, ABILYEIT, _part. pa._

1. Drest, apparelled.

_Douglas._

2. Equipped for the field of battle.

_Acts Ja. II._

Fr. _habill-er_, to clothe.

ABULIEMENT, _s._ Dress, habit; Fr. _habiliment_.

_Bellenden._

AC, EC, _conj._ But, and.

_Barbour._

A. S. _aec_, _eac_; Moes. G. _auk_; Alem. _auh_; Su. G. _och_,
_ock_; Belg. _ook_; Lat. _ac_, etiam.

ACCOMIE, _s._ A species of metal, S.

V. ~Alcomye~.

_To_ ACCORD. Used impersonally; _as accords_, or _as accords of law_, i. e. as is agreeable or conformable to law. It has greater latitude of signification than the phrase, _as effeiris_, which denotes any thing proportional, convenient, or becoming, as well as conformity.

_Laws of S._

_To_ ACHERSPYRE, _v. n._ To shoot, to germinate, E. _acrospire_.

_Chalmerlan Air._

A. S. _aechir_, an ear of corn, _aecer_, Su. G. _aakar_, corn, and _spira_, the projection of any thing that is long and slender. Gr. ακρος, summus, and σπειρα, spira.

ACHERSPIRE, _s._ The germination of malt at that end of the grain from which the stalk grows, S.

ACHIL, _adj._ Noble.

V. ~Athil~.

_To_ ACRES, ACRESCE, _v. n._

1. To increase, to gather strength.

_Burel._

2. Used us a law term in S. to denote that one species of right, or claim, flows from, and naturally falls to be added to, its principal.

Fr. _accroist-re_, Lat. _accrescere_, id.

_To_ ACQUEIS, _v. a._ To acquire.

_Burel._

Fr. _acquis_, _acquise_, part. pa.; Lat. _acquisitus_.

ACQUART, AIKWERT, _adj._ Cross, perverse, S.

_Douglas._

A. S. _acwerd_, aversus, perversus, E. _aukward_.

ACTON, _s._ A leathern jacket, strongly stuffed, anciently worn under a coat of mail.

_Stat. Rob. I._

O. Fr. _auqueton_, _haucton_, L. B. _aketon_, _acton_, id.

ACTUAL, _adj._ _An actual minister_, or _an actual man_, a phrase still used by the vulgar to denote one who is in full orders as a minister of the gospel, S.

_Wodrow._