an _avir_ in ane cart'--_Bellend. Chron._

"'_Aiver_, a he-goat after he has been gelded: till then he is
denominated a _buck_.

"_Haiver_, _haivrel_, _haverel_, a gelded goat (East Lothian,
Lanarkshire, Sotherland).

"_Hebrun_, _heburn_, are also synonymes.

"_Averie_, live-stock, as including horses, cattle, &c.

"'Calculation of what money, &c. will sustain their Majesties'
house and _averie_'--_Keith's Hist._

"'_Averia_, _averii_, 'equi, boves, jumenta, oves, ceteraque
animalia quæ agriculturæ inserviunt.'"--Ducange.

Skene traces this word to the low Latin, _averia_, "quhilk signifies
ane beast." According to Spelman, the Northumbrians call a horse
_aver_ or _afer_.

See much more learned disquisition on the origin of these evidently
congenerous words under the term _Arage_, in Jamieson.

EMDEE.


_Mowbray Coheirs_ (No. 14. p. 213.).--Your correspondent "G." may
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