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

AWALT SHEEP, one that has fallen backward, or downhill, and cannot recover itself, S.
V. [Awail].
Gl. Sibb.

To AWANCE, v. a. To advance.

Fr. avanc-er, id.

Wallace.

AWAT, s. Ground ploughed after the first crop from lea. The crop produced is called the awat-crap, also pronounced award; Ang. Avil, Galloway, aewall, Clydes. id.

A. S. afed, pastus, af-at, depastus; or Su. G. awat, afat, deficiens; or perhaps from af-val, diminution, as the same with [Awalt], q. v.

AWAWARD, s. The vanguard.
Barbour.

Fr. avantgarde.

AWBYRCHOWNE, AWBERCHEOUN, s. The habergeon, or breastplate.
Wyntown.

Franc. halsberge, Isl. halsbeorg, collare chalybeum, from hals the neck, and berga to defend; Fr. haubergeon; L. B. halberg-ium.