† aˈrunt, v. Obs.
[Etymol. unknown.]
To rail at, revile, scold, rate; or ? to drive away. (If the latter is the sense, cf. Shakespeare's aroint.)
| 1399 Rich. Redeless iii. 221 ? Arounted [MS. has Arouutyd] ffor his ray [= array, dress] and rebuked ofte. 1496 Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) vii. iv. 280 Make the plesaunt in speche to the congregacyon of poore folke..and yelde thy dette & answere peasable thynges & mekenesse, not to arunt them ne rebuke them ne chyde them. |