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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._

L. B. _rect-are_, _ret-are_, _arett-are_, accusare, in jus vocare, Du Cange.

ARGENT CONTENT, Ready money. Fr. _argent comptant_, id.

_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._

_To_ ARGH, _v. n._ To hesitate.

V. ~Arch~, and ~Ergh~, _v._

ARGIE, _s._ a.s.sertion in a dispute, the specific plea which one uses in disputation, S. B.

Su. G. _ierga_, semper eadem obgannire; Isl. _iarg-r_, keen contention.

_To_ ARGLE-BARGLE, AURGLE-BARGIN, _v. n._ To contend, to bandy backwards and forwards, S. _Argle-bargin_, Loth. _Eaggle-bargin_, synon.

_Ramsay._

Isl. _arg_ enraged, _jarg-a_ to contend.

_To_ ARGONE, ARGOWNE, ARGWE, ARGEW, _v. a._

1. To argue, to contend by argument.

_Bannatyne Poems._

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