AULD-WARLD, _adj._ Antique, antiquated, S.
AULIN. _Scouti-aulin_, _Dirty Aulin_, the arctic gull, Orkn. Loth.
AULTRAGES, AULTERAGES, _s. pl._ The emoluments arising from the offerings made at an altar, or from the rents appointed for the support of it.
L. B. _altarag-ium_, _alterag-ium_, obventio altaris; Du Cange.
_To_ AUNTER, AWNTYR, _v. a._ To hazard, to put into the power of accident.
Fr. _aventur-er_, risquer, mettre au hazard; Dict. Trev.
_Aunter_ is used by Chaucer and Gower in a neuter sense.
AUNTER, _s._ Adventure; O. E. _antre_, R. Brunne.
O. Fr. _aventureux_, hasardé; L. B. _adventor-ius_; Gl. Roquefort.
_To_ AVOKE, _v. a._ To call away, to keep off.
O. Fr. _avoutrie_; Ital. _avolteria_; Lat. _adulter-ium_; Teut. _vouter-en_, fornicare, camerare.
1. A vow; used in the same sense by Chaucer.
2. Discovery, declaration; in modern language, avowal.
A. S. _ostige_, knotty, from _ost_, Teut. _oest_, a knot, properly in wood.
Isl. _aa_, _atte_, debeo, debuit; A. S. _ag_, _ahte_; Su. G. _a_; Moes. G. _aih_, habeo, imperf. _aiht-a_.
AW, sometimes to be viewed as the third pers. sing. of the _v._; signifying owed, ought.
_To_ AUCHT, AWCHT, AUGHT, _v. a._ To owe.
AWA, _adv._ Away; the general pronunciation in S.
Fr. _aval-er_, to go, or fall, down; also, to let fall; Teut. _af-vall-en_, decidere; _af-val_, casus; Su. G. _afal_, _affal_, lapsus.
AWAY. This word seems to have been used occasionally as a verb.
A. S. _aweg_, away, may be viewed as the imperat. of _awaeg-an_, to take away, or _awegg-an_, to depart.
AWAYMENTIS, _s. pl._ Consultations; Gl. Perhaps preparations, or preliminaries.
Perhaps from O. Fr. _avoy-er_, to put in train; _avoyment_, enquêté, ouverture; de _via_; Gl. Roquefort.
AWALT SHEEP, one that has fallen backward, or downhill, and cannot recover itself, S.
AWAT, _s._ Ground ploughed after the first crop from lea. The crop produced is called the _awat-crap_, also pronounced _award_; Ang. _Avil_, Galloway, _aewall_, Clydes. id.
A. S. _afed_, pastus, _af-at_, depastus; or Su. G. _awat_, _afat_, deficiens; or perhaps from _af-val_, diminution, as the same with ~Awalt~, q. v.
AWBYRCHOWNE, AWBERCHEOUN, _s._ The habergeon, or breastplate.
Franc. _halsberge_, Isl. _halsbeorg_, collare chalybeum, from _hals_ the neck, and _berga_ to defend; Fr. _haubergeon_; L. B. _halberg-ium_.