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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Feilding, vbl. n. [f. Feild v.] The action of taking the field to fight. —1526 Crim. Trials I. 237.
For the tressonable arraying of batell, insurrection and feilding aganis Johne Duke of Albany