Sc. Obs. Also 6 failȝe, (7 printed failzie). [a. OF. faille: see FAIL sb.] a. Failure, non-performance; also, an instance of this. b. Consequent liability to a penalty.

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1551.  Sc. Acts Mary (1814), 488. He sall content and pay for euerie failȝie [of ane act] ane hundreth markis.

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1552.  Lyndesay, The Monarche, 5760.

        Thare salbe sene the fraudfull failȝeis
Off Schireffis, Prouestis, and of Bailȝeis.

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1640–1.  Kirkcudbr. War-Comm. Min. Bk. (1855), 40. Ane thousand merks, to be peyit to the Committie, to the use of the publict, in case of failzie.

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a. 1670.  Spalding, Troub. Chas. I. (1792), II. 225. It was a snare devised to draw gentlemen under failzies.

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