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and n. [ME., also ethel, æthel, and prop. athele, ethele, athele (in northern writers often hathel, etc.), Lutele children in the cradele, Both chorles an ek athele . Owl and Nightingale, 1. 631. II. n. A noble; a chief; often simply a man. His hathel on hors watz thenne That bere his spere & launce. Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight (ed. Morris), 1. 2065. =