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The utterance of the ejaculation "Ay me !" [Obs.] See Ay, interj. "Aymees and hearty heigh-hoes." J. Fletcher.

Affray. [Obs.] Spenser.

An allaying; that which allays; mitigation. [Obs.] The like allayment could I give my grief. Shak.

Clothes; raiment. [Obs.]

Betrayal. [R.] Udall.

Betrayal. [R.]

Payment of charges.

Hindrance. [Obs.] Gower.

Disorder. [R.] Feltham.

A bay. [R.] The embayment which is terminated by the land of North Berwick. Sir W. Scott.

Neglect or failure to pay.

ng, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation. No man envieth the payment of a debt. Bacon.

Payment in advance.

The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor.

Verily; truly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

to grieve; to wail. [Written also waiment.] [Obs.] Thilke science . . . maketh a man to waymenten. Chaucer. For what boots it to weep and wayment, When ill is chanced Spenser.

Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission.

e an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand. I shall, with pleasure, make the necessary advances. Jay. The account was made up with intent to show what advances had been made. Kent. In…

An advance of money or value; payment in advance. See Advance, 5.

One opposed to the payment of rent; esp. one of those who in 1840-47 resisted the collection of rents claimed by the patroons from the settlers on certain manorial lands in the State of New York. -- An`ti*rent"ism, n.