prep., dial. [f. A- pref. 2 + YOND; cf. beyond, and the double forms afore, before, etc. (Ayont is the mod. Scotch and north. Eng. dial. form.)] Beyond, on the other side of.
1724. A. Ramsay, Tea-T. Misc. (1733), I. 84. Down ayont the ingle he sat.
1803–49. Mangan, Poems (1859), 375. Ayond the gloom of thy sunken cell.
1826. J. Wilson, Noct. Ambr., Wks. 1855, I. 145. The flock are ayont the knowes.
1837. Marryat, Dog Fiend, xix. I went out to the Nab buoy, and a mile ayond it.
1855. in Whitby Glossary.
