afrounte (A.N.) _to encounter_, _attack_, _accost rudely_. _pret. s._ afrounted, 425
a-fyngred (A.S.) 133, 176, 283, 403, _a-hungered_, _hungry_
a-furst (A.S.) 176, 283, _a-thirst_, _thirsty_. The two forms, _a-fyngred_ and _a-furst_, appear to be characteristic of the dialect of the counties which lay on the Welsh border. They occur once or twice in MS. Harl. 2253, which, in my Specimens of Lyric Poetry, I have shown to have been written in Herefordshire. They also occur in several other manuscripts which may probably be traced to that part of England. In the Romance of Horn, in the MS. just mentioned, we have the lines:--
Horn set at grounde, Him thohte he wes y-bounde, He seide, Quene, so hende, To me hydeward thou wende. Thou shench us with the vurste, The beggares bueth _a-furste_.
i. e. the beggars are thirsty. Whitaker gives a very remarkable translation of _a-furst and a-fyngred_, i. e. _frost-bitten, and with aching fingers_. Ritson has no less inaccurately explained _a-furste_ in the Romance of Horn, by _at first_: the Cambridge MS. of this Romance, earlier and better than the MS. Harl., reads:--
Thu gef us with the furste, The beggeres beoth _of thurste_.
ayein (A.S.) _again_, _in return for_. ayeins, _against_, _towards_
a-gulte (A.S.) 273, 313, 318, 365, _to fail in duty towards any one_, _offend_, _sin against_
+aisliche (A.S.) 471, _fearfully_. The Anglo-Saxon _egeslice_
aken (A.S.) _to ache_. _pret. pl._ oke, 359
al (A.S.) _all_. _pl._ alle, _gen. pl._ alre, aller. oure aller fader, 342, _the father of us all_. your aller heed, 424, _head of you all_
a-liry (A.S.) 124, _across_, _cross-legged_
allowen (A.N.) 294, _to allow_, _approve_
a-maistren, a-maistryen (A.N.) _to overcome_, _be master of_
amortisen (A.N.) 314, _to amortize_, _to give property in mortmain_
ampulle (A.N.) 109, _a small vessel containing holy water or oil_
ancres (A.S.) 3, 308, _anachorites, monks who live in solitude_. It is applied to nuns, in the early English Rule of Nuns. See Reliquiæ Antiquæ, vol. ii, p. 1
and (A.S.) the conjunction, is frequently used in the sense of _if_. and men crye, 362, _if men cry_
aniente (A.N.) 365, _to destroy, annihilate, reduce to nothing_
+anuel (A.N.) 475, _an annuity_: a yearly salary paid to a priest for keeping an anniversary