alegeaunce

[ALEGGEAUNCE.] * a-lěġ'-er, a. [Fr. alègre and allègre; Lat. alacer.] Sprightly, gay, filled with alacrity. do all condense the spirits, and make them strong and aleger."-Bacon: Nat. Hist., Cent. viii., §738. *a-legge, *a-lege, v.t. [Fr. alléger = to lighten, to disburden, to relieve. In A.S. alecgan, alecgean is to lay down.] [ALLAY.] 1. To alleviate, to lighten. "The joyous time now nigheth fast, That shall alegge this bitter blast, And slake the winter sorowe," Spenser: Shepheards Calender; March. 2. To absolve from allegiance. ( Scotch .) "All his liegis of alkyn greis Conditiounys, stat is, and qualiteis, Levit and law it alegit he Of alkyn aith of fewté." Wyntoun , ix. 20.