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Metin(g, vbl. n.2 Also: metein(g, meitting, meeting. [ME. (Wyclif) and e.m.E. meting, -yng(e, e.m.E. meeting (1644), f. Mete v.2 Cf. Metting.] Measuring. = Metting vbl. n. 1. b. In witchcraft. Cf. Metting vbl. n. 1 e, Mete v.2 b and Met p.p. 1 b. c. Dealing out, apportioning. fig. Cf. Met v. 1 b. 1507 Treas. Acc. III. 397.
For meting and grathing of the vises. iij s. 1589-1600 Skipper's Acc. (Morton) 50 a.
The haill exspenes of thes cloyth comes to meteing paking and wther charges is xxviii s. 1597 Misc. Spald. C. I. 146.
In mesuring and meting of land be biging and puting vpe wpone the land of Cragtoun … of carines of stane 1601 Dundee Shipping P. 70.
For … expennsis metein the salt 17 R. 1606 Inverness Rec. II. 34.
Ane lytill measower for meitting of twa pennorth of great salt 1680 Foulis Acc. Bk. 49.
To the metster for meting 24 daill coallsb. 1649 Stow 151.
[His wife, at the same time, was accused of practising witchcraft by] meeting the beltc. a1568 Bann. MS. 71 a/6.
The alteratioun … Off manis estait … is … Godis awin ordinance Meting all tyme to our lyfe les & mair
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