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

AVOUTERIE, ADVOUTERIE, s. Adultery.
Gl. Sibb.

O. Fr. avoutrie; Ital. avolteria; Lat. adulter-ium; Teut. vouter-en, fornicare, camerare.

AVOW, AVOWE, s.
1. A vow; used in the same sense by Chaucer.
Douglas.
2. Discovery, declaration; in modern language, avowal.
Minstrelsy Bord.

Fr. avou-er, to confess.

AUSTIE, adj. Austere, harsh.
Henrysone.

A. S. ostige, knotty, from ost, Teut. oest, a knot, properly in wood.

To AW, AWE, v. a. To owe, S.
Wallace.

Isl. aa, atte, debeo, debuit; A. S. ag, ahte; Su. G. a; Moes. G. aih, habeo, imperf. aiht-a.

V. [Aigh], [Aucht].

AW, sometimes to be viewed as the third pers. sing. of the v.; signifying owed, ought.
Wallace.