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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1675
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Loosing, vbl. n.2 [e.m.E. loosinge, late ME. loosynge (Trevisa).] Losing, forfeiting. = Lossing vbl. n.1 a. — 1675 Glasgow B. Rec. III. 206.
By and attour the loosing of their burgeship and fredome of this burgh
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