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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1511-1579
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(Saying,) Sayng, Seying, vbl. n.1 Also: seing. [Say v.2; cf. 19th c. Eng. saying-knife (a1858).] The action of putting to trial or proof; testing, assessing, examining. — 1511–12 Treasurer's Accounts IV 274.
Compt maid with William Striveling for expensis maid be him apone the sayng of the led mynd of Ilay 1557–8 Edinb. Old Acc. I 255.
To Robert Fynder [etc.] … at the schutting and seying of the chalmeris quhilk wes maid be Johnne Kyll in Leith 1579 Misc. Bann. C. II 197.
xiii seing of vrenis, the pece xvi d.
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