[âr-fäst], adj., honorable, upright, [1169]; of Hûnferð (with reference to [588]. See [fäst].

[ârian], w. v., (to be gracious), to spare: III. sg. prs. w. dat. nænegum ârað; of Grendel, [599].

[âr-stäf], st. m.,(elementum honoris), grace, favor: dat. pl. mid ârstafum, [317].—Help, support: dat. pl. for âr-stafum, to the assistance, [382], [458]. See [stäf].

[âter-teár], m., poisonous drop: dat. pl. îren âter-teárum fâh (steel which is dipped in poison or in poisonous sap of plants), [1460].

[âttor], st. n., poison, here of the poison of the dragon's bite: nom., [2716].

[âttor-sceaða], w. m., poisonous enemy, of the poisonous dragon: gen. sg. -sceaðan, [2840].

[âwâ], adv. (certainly not the dative, but a reduplicated form of â, which see), ever: âwâ tô aldre, fôr ever and ever, [956].

[Ä]

[ädre], adv., hastily, directly, immediately, [77], [354], [3107]. [ædre.]

[äðele], adj., noble: nom. sg., of Beówulf, [198], [1313]; of Beówulf's father, [263], where it can be understood as well in a moral as in a genealogical sense; the latter prevails decidedly in the gen. sg. äðelan cynnes, [2235].