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Quotation dates: 1375, 1438, 1531-1549
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Isch(e)ing, vbl. n. Also: ischyng, ishing, ysching. [ME. issynge (c 1422); f. Isch(e v.]
1. The action of going out, esp. by way of an armed sally or sortie. 1375 Barb. xv. 158; 1375 Ib. 246.
The man that went till the Kyng For till warn hym of thair ysching [E. isching] ?1438 Alex. ii. 2618.
The defoull … That we haue tholit at this ishing 1531 Bell. Boece I. 58.
King Rewther, evading his ennimes be maist perellus ischeing 1533 Id. Livy I. 149/3.
Than rais ane huge noyis … be isching of the Romanis at sindri portis 1533 Ib. 211/15.
To stop the inemyis fra ony out-passage or isching
2. A way out, outlet, exit. 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 98/11.
The quhilk place hed ane narrou entres & narrou isching 1549 Ib. 99/14.
Grit treis … quhilkis thai pat … at the entres and at the ischyng furtht of that strait passage
3. The expiry (of a truce). 1533 Bell. Livy II. 94/15.
The dayis of the trewis war out rvn, and afore the ischeing of trewis the Veanis rebellit
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