An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
Chapter 36 : _agena_, id.; also, a shoot or stalk. AWP, WHAUP, _s._ The curlew, a bird, S. V. ~Quhai

_agena_, id.; also, a shoot or stalk.

AWP, WHAUP, _s._ The curlew, a bird, S.

V. ~Quhaip~.

_Gl. Sibb._

AWORTH, _adv._ "Worthily," Tytler.

_King's Quair._

A. S. _awyrth-ian_, glorificare.

AWRO, Probably _a wro_, a corner.

_Gl. Complaynt S._

Su. G. _wra_, p.r.o.n. _wro_, angulus.

AWS, AWES, _of a mill-wheel_, _s._ The buckets or projections on the rims which receive the shock of the water as it falls, S.

_Statist. Acc._

AWSK, _s._ The newt or eft.

V. ~Ask~.

AWSOME, _adj._ Appaling, awful, S. B.

_Rutherford._

AWSTRENE, _adj._ Stern, austere.

V. ~Asterne~.

_Henrysone._

Lat. _auster-us_, or A. S. _styrn_.

AWTAYNE, _adj._ Haughty.

_Wyntown._

O. Fr. _hautain_, grand, sublime, eleve, Gl. Roquefort; from Lat.

_alt-us_.

AWTER, _s._ An altar; Chaucer, id.

O. Fr. _autiere_, Lat. _altare_.

_Barbour._

_To_ AX, _v. a._ To ask, S. _Asched_, _axede_, asked; R. Glouc.

_Ruddiman._

A. S. _ahs-ian_, _ax-ian_, interrogare.

AXIS, ACKSYS, _s. pl._ Aches, pains. _Axes_, id. Orkn.

_King's Quair._

A. S. _aece_, dolor; _egesa_, horror; Moes. G. _agis_, terror.

AX-TREE, _s._ An axle-tree, S.

A. S. _eax_, _ex_; Alem. _ahsa_, Germ. _achse_, axis; perhaps from Isl. _ak-a_, to drive a chariot or dray, G. Andr.

AYONT, _prep._ Beyond, S.

_Ross._

A. S. _geond_ ultra, with a prefixed; or _on_, as _afield_, originally _on field_.

B

BAACH, _a._ Ungrateful to the taste.

V. ~Bauch~.

BABIE, BAWBIE, _s._ A copper coin equal to a halfpenny English, S.