Chapter L: B. averag-ium, from aver-ia, a beast for work; and this

perhaps from Fr. _ouvre_ work.

_To_ ARAS, ARRACE, _v. a._

1. To snatch or pluck away by force.

_Wyntown._

2. To raise up.

_Douglas._

This sense is so different from the former, that it might rather
seem to be put for _arraise_, q. to raise up.

Fr. _arrach-er_, to tear, to pull by violence; to pull up by the
roots, from Lat. _eradic-are_.

ARBY, _s._ The sea-gilliflower, Orkn.

_Neill._

ARBY-ROOT, _s._ The root of the sea-pink, or Statice armeria, Orkn.

ARCH, ARGH, AIRGH, ERGH, (gutt.) _adj._

1. Averse, reluctant; often including the idea of timidity as the cause of reluctance, S.

_Douglas._

2. Apprehensive, filled with anxiety, S. Chaucer, _erke_, weary, indolent.

_Popul. Ball._

A. S. _earg_, desidiosus, iners, slothful, sluggish, _earh_ fugax, "timorous, and ready to run away for fear," Somn. Isl. _arg-ur_, reformidans; _arg-r_ piger, deses; Su. G. _arg_, ignavus. Among the Goths _argur_, L. B. _arga_, denoted a poltroon, a coward.

_To_ ARCH, ARGH, _v. n._ To hesitate, to be reluctant.

V. ~Ergh~, _v._

ARCHNES, ARGHNESS, _s._

1. Reluctance, backwardness.

_Wodrow._

2. Obliquely used for niggardliness, q. reluctance to part with any thing.

_Legend Bp. St Androis._

_To_ AREIK, ARREIK, _v. a._ To reach, to extend.

_Douglas._

A. S. _arecc-an_, assequi, to get, to attain.

AREIR, _adv._ Back. _To rin areir_, to decline.

_Lyndsay._

Fr. _arriere_ backward; Lat. _a retro_.

ARESOUND, _pret._ Perhaps, called in question; Fr. _aresoner_, interroger, questionner, demander; _ratiocinari_; Gl. Roquefort. _Areson_ is used by R. Brunne in the sense of persuade, or reason with.

_Sir Tristrem._

ARETTYT, _part. pa._ Accused, brought into judgment.

_Barbour._