aumener, aumere

[Fr. aumonier = an almoner.] An almoner auld lang syne. [Scotch auld Eng. * âu-mone, s. [Fr. aumône = alms, charity.] old; lang = long; syne = since.] Long, long ago; referring to the time when friends now in full maturity, if not even beginning to decline, were boys accustomed to play together. "But seas between us braid ha'e roar'd, Sin' auld lang syne." Burns: Auld Lang Syne. auld-warld, a. Old world; antique; belonging to a state of things which has now pa ed away. ( Scotch .)