a. and quasi-sb. Sc. Also 4 fiff-sum. [f. FIVE + -SOME.] Five in all, five together.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, VI. 149. Fiff-sum in the furd he slew.
16[?]. Ballad, Kinmont Willie, 9.
| They band his legs beneath the steed, | |
| They tied his hands behind his back; | |
| They guarded him, fivesome on each side, | |
| And they brought him ower the Liddel-rack. |
