vbl. sb. Obs. [f. LIT v. + -ING1.] The action of coloring, dyeing or painting. Also Comb. † litting-lead, a dyer’s vat.

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a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 392. Ine schelde beoð þreo þinges, þet treo, and þet leðer, & þe peintunge [v.r. litinge].

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 308/2. Lytynge of clothe (MS. K., P. littinge), tinctura.

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1485–6.  Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 157. Operanti super … et posicione unius lyttynglede.

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1543.  Extracts Aberdeen Reg. (1844), I. 187. Ane gryt litting leid, price twenty poundis, ane litill litting leid, price sax poundis.

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1568.  Satir. Poems Reform., xlviii. 31. Seure, be my witting, not brunt in the litting.

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