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on the shore, der’r hardly a ar upo de shore. a ar o’ wind, very light breeze (Y^h.). Icel. ar, n., minute speck of dust; mote in a sunbeam. For *“ar” of feeble movement see below ar, vb., and arel, sb. and vb. Cf. er, sb.

ar² [ār], sb., scar; scratch; mostly with prefixed h: har [hār]. O.N. ǫrr, n., Da. ar, Eng. dial. and L.Sc. arr, sb.

ar [ār], vb., to move oneself feebly and almost lifelessly, esp.: a) of living beings, men or animals; to ar (geng arin) aboot, walk with difficulty; to totter about (N.Sh.), = to ur; b) of tide: to move; begin to move (immediately after the turn of the tide), or to move very slowly (immediately before slack water and turn of the tide), N.I.; hit [‘it’] was a’, dey could ken, hit was arin, they could just tell that the tide was moving (Uⁿ.); de tide is begun to ar, to “ar in” (move shorewards), to “ar fram” (= ar ut, go out seawards) (Y^h.). *ar- of feeble movement. No. arra, vb., walk with difficulty; Da. dial. (Jut.) ærre, vb., to move; O.N. and Mod. Icel. arka, vb., to go forward, walk slowly; Icel. örga, vb., to move slightly. Cf. arel, vb.

ard [ārd], adj., scarred; covered over with scars or scratches, a. hands; mostly with a prefixed h: hard [hārd]. Deriv. of ar², sb.

arel [ārəl], sb., feeble, dying away movement, esp. of the tide, just before the turn, and then generally in pl.: arels; de hidmost arels o’ de nort’-tide; Fe. Also ari, comm. in pl.: aris; Ai. In Ai. ari(s) is used, de aris o’ de tide, comm. about the first movement of the tide. *arl-. See arel, vb.

arel [ārəl], vb., to move oneself very feebly or lifelessly; just able to a. (Fe.), to geng arlin (aboot); shø [‘she’] ’s still arlin aboot, she

is still crawling about (of a poor sick person) (Sa.); de tide is still arlin (U^mo.). In Sa. a parallel form aren [ārən] is found, to a. aboot. — From *ar- of slight movement; see above ar, sb. and vb. For the suffix -(e)l cf. Icel. örla, vb., of waves: to break very slightly (B. H.).

aren [ārən], vb. — arel, vb. Sa.

*arff, *airff, *ayrffe, sb. 1) inheritance; share of inheritance; 2) succession to property. In these meanings “arff” and “ayrffe” are given by Balfour; “airff” by S. Hibbert (Memoir on the Tings of Orkney and Shetland 1823), meaning share of inheritance: “The place appointed for the adjudication of airffs was originally the site in which other parish tings were held”. 3) partition of an inheritance; apportionment of inheritance; to mak’ a(n) a. “Airff” is explained in a judicial document, dated 19th of Aug. 1602 (Matters of Succession and Inheritance): “…anent the airff (division) appointit to be haldin at Vyea…for divisioun of the landis and moveablis airit be…” (Peterkin’s Notes). Here, however, the word might also be understood in the sense mentioned below (given by Hibbert). 4) probate court, cantonal court at which the partition of inheritance (allodial possessions) to the heirs-apparent, took place. Thus “airff” is explained by S. Hibbert in “Memoir, etc.” “It was ordained that an airff should be made at the airff-house of Norbie” (S. H., Memoir, etc.). In the phrase “to mak” a(n) airff” the correct meaning of this word must be the partition of an inheritance; to had a(n) a., to hold a probate court or a court for the partition of an inheritance; cf. the quotation above under *a(i)rff 3, where the word in this connection is expressed by (arve)-