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AT, _p.r.o.n._ That, which.

_Wyntown._

AT ALL, _adv._ ”Altogether,” Rudd.; perhaps, at best, at any rate.

_Douglas._

ATANIS, ATTANIS, ATANYS, ATONIS, _adv._ At once; S. at _ainze_.

V. ~Anis~, ~Anys~.

_Gawan and Gol._

ATCHESON, ATCHISON, _s._ A billon coin, or rather copper washed with silver, struck in the reign of James VI., of the value of eight pennies Scots, or two-thirds of an English penny.

_Ruddiman._

From the name of the a.s.say-master of the mint.

ATHARIST, Houlate III. 10.

V. ~Citharist~.

ATHE, AITH, AYTHE, _s._ An oath; plur. _athis_.

_Barbour._

Moes. G. _aith_, A. S. _ath_, Precop. _eth_, Isl. _aed_, Su. G.

_ed_, Dan. and Belg. _eed_, Alem. and Germ. _eid_, juramentum.

ATHER, _conj._ Either.

V. ~Athir~.

_R. Bruce._

ATHIL, ATHILL, HATHILL, _adv._ n.o.ble, ill.u.s.trious.

_Houlate._

A. S. _aethel_, n.o.bilis; whence _Aetheling_, _Atheling_, a youth of the blood royal; Su. G. _adel_, id.; _adling_, juvenis n.o.bilis; deduced from ancient Gothic _aelt_, kindred. C. B. _eddyl_ is also equivalent to Lat. gens, cognatio.

ATHIL, HATHEL, _s._ A n.o.ble prince, a man, an ill.u.s.trious personage; plur. _athilles_, (erroneously _achilles_,) _hatheles_.