Areste, [91], arrest.
Arn, are.
Arnde, errand, message.
Arneys, [283], harness.
Arryn, [316], seize.
Arwe, arrow.
Asayn, assay.
Askuse, [2], excuse.
Asmatryk, [189], arithmetic. This word is used by Chaucer and Lydgate, and occurs as late as the year 1594 in John Davis’s “Seaman’s Secrets,” epist. ded. See also Chaucer’s Cant. Tal. v. 1900, ed. Tyrwhitt, and note, where he quotes a passage from the Cottonian manuscript of “the Sevyn Sages of Rome,” in which the same word occurs.
Asoyle, [38], resolve. Mr. Hunter, in the additions to Boucher, points out the two meanings of this word from Palsgrave, viz., absolve, and resolve. It is here used in the latter sense.