An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

A. S. alyht-an, illuminare; alyht-nysse, illuminatio.

ALIST. To come alist. To recover from faintness or decay, applied both to animals and vegetables; to recover from a swoon, S. B.
Ross.

Isl. lios, light; aliost, the dawn of day; at koma i liosi, to make manifest.

ALYTE, adv. A little.
V. [Lite].
Lyndsay.

ALLAGRUGOUS, adj. Grim, ghastly.
Journ. Lond.

Perhaps from all, Moes. G. alla, and [gruous], ghastly, q. v.

ALLAGUST, s. Suspicion.
Journ. Lond.

Fr. a le goust, has a taste or smack.

To ALLAYA, v. a. To ally.
Complaynt S.

Fr. alli-er.