▪ I. waging, vbl. n.
(ˈweɪdʒɪŋ)
[-ing1.]
1. The action of wage v.1
| 1456 Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 146 Na in his condicioun of feyng was divisioun maid of his wageing. Ibid. 258 In how mony syndry casis law tholis vageing of bataill. a 1513 Fabyan Chron. vii. (1811) 555 Of whome the kynge receyuyd..iiii. M. li. sterlynge towarde the wagynge of his knyghtis. 1583 T. Stocker Civ. Warres Lowe C. iv. 36 b, For the leuiyng, dischargyng, entertainyng, and wagyng, of men of Warre. 1591 Percivall Sp. Dict., Pleytesia, a sute in law, waging of lawe. a 1674 Milton Hist. Mosc. i. Wks. 1851 VIII. 478 By which means the waging of War is to the Emperor little or nothing chargeable. 1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans xiii, Such a scrimmage as was here fou't atween the Mohicans and the Mohawks, in a war of their own waging. |
† 2. The excrement of a fox. Obs. rare.
| c 1410 Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) xxiv, Of hares and of conynges he shall say þei croteth, and of þe fox wagynge. |
▪ II. waging
obs. variant of wedging vbl. n.