afayle

i. [A.S. a intensive, and feallan = to fall down (?).] To fall. "Two hundred knyghts take The Lerons boldely to a ayle, Loke youre hertys not a fayle." M.S. Cantab. ( Hall i well .) *a-fa'ynd, v.t. [A.S. afındian = to prove, to make trial.] To attempt. (Scotch.) "Warly thai raid, and held thar horse in aynd, For thai trowide weyll So the ron wuld afaynd With haill power at anys on them to sett, But Wallace kest thair power for to lett." Wallace , 874, MSS., Perth ed. (Jamie son.) Altered to OFFEND in the edition of 1648. *a-fay-ting, adv. [A = on, and A.N. faiten = to beg.] A-begging. "And gooth afaytyng with here fauntes." P. Plowman (ed. Skeat), c. x. 170. *a-fear, a-fëre, *a-ferre, af-fear, v.t. [A.S. afæran to frighten, to astonish, pa. par. afered .] [AFFRIGHT.] To make afraid, to frighten, to terrify. "Ye have with you good engynes, Swilke knowe but few Sarezynes; A mangenel thou doo arere, And 300 thou schi.lt heve wel afere . " Richard Cœur de Leon, 4,104 This word still exists among the uneducated. *a-feared', *a-fër-id, * a-feard', * afëred', a-ferd, a-fèrt, * a-fëre', *a-ferre, af-feared', *af-feard, *af-fer-děde, pa . par . [AFEAR.] " Clo . Art thou afeared! Gui. Those that I reverence, those I fear." Shakesp.: Cymbeline , iv. 2. "A flake of fire that flashing on his beard, Him all amazed, and almost made him afeard ." Spenser: F. Q., 1. xi. 26.