- asley, willingly. northumb.
- anon, shortly, as soon as ; i. e. As-TiDE.TIDE, in the North, signifies soon, and TIDER, or TITTER, sooner ; from the Saxon word, TID, time ; whence shrove tide, whitsun-tide.
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England. Francis Grose. 1790.
