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AUCHLIT, _s._ Two stones weight, or a peck measure, being half of the Kirkcudbright bushel; Galloway.

AUCHT, AWCHT, (gutt.) _pret._ of Aw.

1. Possessed. _Auht_, id. R. Brunne.

_Wyntown._

2. Owed, was indebted, id. R. Brunne.

_Wyntown._

AUCHT, (gutt.) _v. imp._ Ought, should.

_Douglas._

_Auchten_ occurs in the same sense.

_Douglas._

A. S. _aht-on_, the third pers. plur. pret. of A. S. _ag-an_, possidere.

AUCHT, _s._ Possession, property; what is exclusively one's own. _In aw my aucht_, in my possession, viewed at its utmost extent, S.

V. ~Best Aucht~.

_Bannatyne Poems._

A. S. _aht_; Moes. G. _aigin_, _aihn_, peculiaris ac propria possessio.

AUCHT, (gutt.) _adj._ Eight, S. _auhte_, O. E. id. R. Brunne.

_Wyntown._

Moes. G. _aht-au_, A. S. _eaht-a_, Germ. _aht_, Belg. _acht_, Isl.

and Su. G. _att-a_, Gael. _ocht_, Lat. _oct-o_.

AUCHTAND, AUCHTEN, _adj._ The eighth. Isl. _aatunde_, octavus.

_Douglas._

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