ân-feald, adj., _simple, plain, without reserve_: acc. sg. ânfealdne geþôht, _simple opinion_, 256. ân-genga, -gengea, w. m., _he who goes alone_, of Grendel, 165, 449. ân-haga, w. m., _he who stands alone_, solitarius, 2369. ân-hydig, adj. (like the O.N. ein-râd-r, _of one resolve_, i.e. of firm resolve), _of one opinion_, i.e. firm, brave, decided, 2668. ânga, adj. (only in the weak form), _single, only_: acc. sg. ângan dôhtor, 375, 2998; ângan eaferan, 1548; dat. sg. ângan brêðer, 1263. ân-päð, st. m., _lonely way, path_: acc. pl. ânpaðas, 1411. ân-ræd, adj. (cf. under ân-hydig), _of firm resolution, resolved_, 1530, 1576. ân-tîd, st. f., _one time_, i.e. the same time, ymb ân-tîd ôðres dôgores, _about the same time the second day_ (they sailed twenty-four hours), 219.--ân stands as in ân-mod, O.H.G. ein-muoti, _harmonious, of the same disposition_. ânunga, adv., _throughout, entirely, wholly_, 635. âr, st. m., _ambassador, messenger_, 336, 2784. âr, st. f., 1) _honor, dignity_: ârum healdan, _to hold in honor_, 296; similarly, 1100, 1183.--2) _favor, grace, support_: acc. sg. âre, 1273, 2607; dat. sg. âre, 2379; gen. pl. hwät ... ârna, 1188.--Comp. worold-âr; also written ær. âr-fäst, adj., _honorable, upright_, 1169; of Hûnferð (with reference to 588). See fäst. ârian, w. v., (_to be gracious_), _to spare_: III. sg. prs. w. dat. nænegum ârað; of Grendel, 599. âr-stäf, st. m.,(elementum honoris), _grace, favor_: dat. pl. mid ârstafum, 317.--_Help, support_: dat. pl. for âr-stafum, _to the assistance_, 382, 458. See stäf. âter-teár, m., _poisonous drop_: dat. pl. îren âter-teárum fâh (steel which is dipped in poison or in poisonous sap of plants), 1460. âttor, st. n., _poison_, here of the poison of the dragon's bite: nom., 2716. âttor-sceaða, w. m., _poisonous enemy, of the poisonous dragon_: gen. sg. -sceaðan, 2840. âwâ, adv. (certainly not the dative, but a reduplicated form of â, which see), _ever_: âwâ tô aldre, _fôr ever and ever_, 956. Ä ädre, adv., _hastily, directly, immediately_, 77, 354, 3107. [ædre.] äðele, adj., _noble_: nom. sg., of Beówulf, 198, 1313; of Beówulf's father, 263, where it can be understood as well in a moral as in a genealogical sense; the latter prevails decidedly in the gen. sg. äðelan cynnes, 2235. äðeling, st. m., _nobleman, man of noble descent_, especially the appellation of a man of royal birth; so of the kings of the Danes, 3; of Scyld, 33; of Hrôðgâr, 130; of Sigemund, 889; of Beówulf, 1226, 1245, 1597, 1816, 2189, 2343, 2375, 2425, 2716, 3136; perhaps also of Däghrefn, 2507;--then, in a broader sense, also denoting other noble-born men: Äschere, 1295; Hrôðgâr's courtiers, 118, 983; Heremôd's courtiers, 907; Hengest's warriors, 1113; Beówulf's retinue, 1805, 1921, 3172; noble-born in general, 2889. --Comp. sib-äðeling.