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Fe, Fee, n.¹ Also: fie. [ME. fee, fe, early feo, OE. féo(h), ON. fé.] Cattle or sheep. 1375 Barb. x. 110.
Quhar men mycht se So gret aboundans cum off fe Ib. 215.
Than maid he him to ȝok his fee [= oxen] a1400 Leg. S. ii. 335.
Besid his falde, Quhare that he wok his fe one nycht c1420 Wynt. i. 214.
Quhar hyrdys mycht in herbry be, Nycht and day, to kepe thare fe Ib. ii. 100.
Wyth hors, and noyt, and othir fe ?1438 Alex. i. 3114.
Before him all his folk he draif, Richt as the husband driuishis fee a1500 Henr. Robin & M. 2.
Robene sat on gud grene hill, Kepand a flok of fe 1513 Doug. iii. iv. 22.
We se Flokkis and herdis of oxin and of fe 1535 Stewart 31661.
Ane schiphird carle keipand a flok of fe Ib. 53907.
Distroyit war all bowis, flokis and fiefig. a1400 Leg. S. xl. 152.
I wyl [that] thu mad bischope be And hird, to kepe Goddis fe

2. Goods or property; wealth; money. a1400 Leg. S. xxxii. 194.
Gyf ȝe wil … richit be With mony landis & with fe Ib. l. 43.
Ferlifull was that offerand thane, … Of gret tresoure & gold & fee c1420 Wynt. vii. 2308.
Thai sayd, courupte wes he Than wyth the kyng off Inglandys fe a1500 Colk. Sow 825.
Besyd this Colkelby Thair duelt a man was rich of stoir and fie c1500-c1512 Dunb. vi. 77.
Of corne and catall, gold and fe, Ipse habet valde multum 1535 Stewart 47851.
All the laif … Spulȝeit the toun of gold, riches and fie