Obs. [f. WAY sb.1]
1. intr. To go, journey, proceed.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., IV. ii. 12. On a time as they together way’d, He made him open chalenge, and thus boldly sayd.
1708. Yorkshire Racers, 10. They … Way’d to the course, and gallop’d true and well.
2. trans. (See quot. 1706.) Also erron. weigh, waigh.
1639. T. de Grey, Compl. Horsem., I. v. (1656), 43. Untill such time as he hath been … made gentle,… content to be shod, to be Back’d, Broken, Ridden, Wayed, Mouthed.
a. 1652. A. Wilson, in Peck, Desid. Curiosa (1735), II. XII. 25. My spotted Nag … being younge & not well waigh’d, run away with mee.
a. 1654. Selden, Table-T. (Arb.), 39. He that hath a Scrupulous Conscience, is like a Horse that is not well weigh’d, he starts at every Bird that flies out of the Hedge.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), To Way a Horse, is to teach him to travel in the Ways.
1708. Lond. Gaz., No. 4490/4. Lost…, a young black Gelding, comes 4, not thorough weigh’d.
3. To set (a waggon) on the made way or track on which it runs.
1763. in London Mag. (1764), 145/2. When a waggon happens to be off the waggon-way, if laden, it will take two or three horses to way the waggon again.
4. intr. To construct a way. In quot. indirect passive. Obs.
1640. Somner, Antiq. Canterb., 195. It was a Free-Schoole for the City … anciently wayed unto, and having a passage to it from some part of Burgate-street.
Hence † Wayed ppl. a.
1640[?]. Suckling, Let., Fragm. Aur. (1658), 77. A well-wayed horse will safely convey thee to thy journeys end.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Way’d Horse [with Horsemen] is one who is already backed, suppled, and broken, and shows a Disposition to the Manage.
