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(To-hing,) v. P.p. to-hungyn, -in. [To- prefix² and Hing v. 5 c.] tr. To allow (a person's fate) to remain undecided. —1513 Doug. xii xii 76.
Thus Jupiter hym self hes atheris chance A weill lang space to hungyn [Sm. to hungin] in ballance