vbl. sb. [-ING1.]
1. The action of WAGE v.1
1456. Sir G. Haye, Law Arms (S.T.S.), 146. Na in his condicioun of feyng was divisioun maid of his wageing. Ibid., 258. In how mony syndry casis law tholis vageing of bataill.
a. 1513. Fabyan, Chron., VII. (1811), 555. Of whome the kynge receyuyd … iiii. M. li. sterlynge towarde the wagynge of his knyghtis.
1583. Stocker, Civ. Warres Lowe C., IV. 36 b. For the leuiyng, dischargyng, entertainyng, and wagyng, of men of Warre.
1591. Percivall, Sp. Dict., Pleytesia, a sute in law, waging of lawe.
a. 1674. Milton, Hist. Moscovia, i. Wks. 1851, VIII. 478. By which means the waging of War is to the Emperor little or nothing chargeable.
1826. J. F. Cooper, Last of Mohicans, xiii. Such a scrimmage as was here fou’t atween the Mohicans and the Mohawks, in a war of their own waging.
† 2. The excrement of a fox. Obs. rare.
c. 1410. Master of Game (MS. Digby 182), xxiv. Of hares and of conynges he shall say þei croteth, and of þe fox wagynge.
