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

AUANT, AWANT, s. Boast, vaunt; Chaucer, id.
Douglas.

AVANTCURRIER, s. One of the fore-runners of an army, the same perhaps that are now called picquet-guards.
Godscroft.

Fr. avantcoureur, from avant before, and courir to run.

AUCHINDORAS, s. A large thorn-tree at the end of a house; Fife.

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.