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

AVERIL, s. Apparently a diminutive from aver, a beast for labour.
Dunbar.

AVERILE, AVYRYLE, s. April.
Wyntown.

AVERIN, AVEREN, AIVERIN, s. Cloudberry or knoutberry, S. Rubus chamaemorus, Linn.; eaten as a dessert in the north of S.
Ross.

Perhaps from Germ. aver wild, and en, a term now applied in Su. G. to the berry of the juniper; Gael. oidh' rac, oirak.

AVIL, s. The second crop after lea or grass; Galloway.
V. [Awat].

AVILLOUS, adj. Contemptible, debased.
Chron. Scot. P.

Fr. avili, ie, in contemptionem adductus; Dict. Trev.

AUISE, s. Advice, counsel; avis, Chaucer; avys, R. Brunne.

Fr. avis.

Douglas.