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Fifty, Fyfty, num. Also: fifté, fifti(e, fithty, feftie; fyffty, fyfti(e; fyiftie, fiiftie, fyvety. [ME. fyfty, fifty, fifti (also e.m.E. fyvetie, fivety), OE. fíftiᵹ.]

1. Fifty.(a) 1375 Barb. vii. 282.
Thar cumpany That war ane hundreth and fifty Ib. ix. 571.
He raid furth with his fifty c1420 Wynt. iii. 641.
Fifty yhere he regnyd syne 1486 Lennox Mun. 127.
The sovm of sex hundretht fithty markis 1488 Treas. Acc. I. 84.
Ane chenȝe … contenand fifti and aucht linkis 1557 Rep. Southesk MSS. 18.
The sowm of tuay hundredtht fifte pundis 1586 Reg. Cupar A. II. 295.
Ane ȝeirlie pensioun of fiftie fyve markis 1596 Dalr. I. 58/16.
Hirth is in the saxtie thrie digrie, and Man in the fiftie sevinth(b) c1420 Wynt. iv. 1094.
Four hundyr vyntyr and fyfty Ib. 2156.
Ane hundyr and fyfty thousand 1454–5 Edinb. Chart. 79.
The yhere of our Lorde a thousande four hundreth fyfty four yheris 1467 Acta Aud. 7/1.
[To] pay him fyfty schelingis for his expens 1513 Doug. i. xi. 19.
Fyfty damycellis tharin seruyt the queyn 1534 Rec. Earld. Orkney 217.
The soume of fyftye ss. in grots and plaks 1555 Carte Northberwic 71.
Hyr Kandelmes maill of this ȝer, viz. fyftye fywe a1570-86 Maitl. F. xxxi. 2.
Ane man past fyftie ȝeir of age 1633 M. Works Acc. xxviii. 9 b.
For carying of fyftie ane laides of lyme 1655 Douglas Chart. 338.
Ther was auchtand … to the cheipland fyftie pund(c) 1453 Coll. Aberd. & B. 541.
The yer of our Lord ane thousand four hundreth fyiftie and three yeris 1472 Reg. Dunferm. 369.
Giffand ȝerli fyuety lib. for the tendis … of the said personage(d) 1630 Bamff Chart. 225.
Feftie sex 1644 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 14.
To deliuer to John Ray … feftie dollers 1645 Ib. 47.
New yron weychts at feftie pund the peice

2. Fiftieth. a1500 Colk. Sow iii. 123.
I can nocht say ... The fyiftie part, thay wer so fructeous 1558 Q. Kennedy Tractive 123.
The fyftiday, callit in our language Wytsounday