aroint

== English == === Etymology === Uncertain, and subject to various attempts to connect it to multiple Germanic and Romance etymons; first attested in the First Folio, and sometimes posited to be an error for anoint, referring to a witch’s supposed flight-facilitating ointment, and thus being a commandment for her to anele herself and fly away; also said to be taken from the phrase rowan tree, thought to dispel witches. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /əˈɹɔɪnt/ Rhymes: -ɔɪnt === Verb === aroint (third-person singular simple present aroints, present participle arointing, simple past and past participle arointed) (archaic, imperative, transitive) avaunt; begone; go away; leave! (archaic) to dispel; to send away. ==== Usage notes ==== Originally seems to be associated directly with supernatural beings, especially witches, however later on milkmaids employed an aphetic, dialectal form of the term in reference to their herds of cattle (see rynt). === Anagrams === Natori, traino, torani, Torain, Tanori, Triano, -inator, Troian, Torian, Tirano, ration, Onrait, Nortia