[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That quests, in senses of the vb.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, XIII. iii. 25. Than the remanent of that questing sort,… Wythdrawis.
c. 1600. Drayton, Miseries Q. Margaret, cxlvi. When they heare the questing Spaniels gone.
1718. Earthquake of Peru, i. 80. Even the Questing-brothers presume to interrupt People at their Prayers.
1810. Scott, Lady of L., III. xiii. Thread the brake like questing hound.
1888. P. Fitzgerald, Fatal Zero, xxvii. 168. That questing, roving eye … that looks out of the corners sharply.
