Obs.–1 [? for fadyng:—OE. fadung apportionment.] ? A division.

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c. 1300.  K. Alis., 47.

        Wyse men fond also there,
xij foddyng to thes yere,
The yere to lede by right ars;
Thes furste was cleped Mars,
That othir Averil [etc.].

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