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Quhiting, n. Also: qwhytyng, quhyting, quyting, whiting, whyting; quhitting, quhytting, whitting, whytting, wyttinge; quhittine, quhyttin, -yn, whittine, -eine, -ane, whyttin, -ein; quhyten, quytine, whitin, -en, Fyting (Suppl.). [Late ME and e.m.E. wytyng (c1425), whytynge (15th c.), MDu. wītinc, -ing(h, wittinc, -ing, wyting, MLG wītink. Cf. ON hvítingr a kind of whale, and Quhit(e)-fisch(e n.] A whiting.Also with defining words, as somer quhitting, tug quhyting. See these words.Also attrib. with seller: cf. e.m.E. whiting-munger (once, 1599).In early use, sometimes pl. without inflexion.(1) c1420 Bute MS fol. 170b.
Of ilk .m. haddow qwhytyng or codlyng 14.. Acts I 305/2.
Qwhytyngis [a1329 Latin text wyttinge] 1561 Reg. Episc. Morav. App. 404.
Haddokis seu quhytings 1589–90 Edinb. B. Rec. V 339.
With frute, ungyeonis, dry quhytingis and uther sic geir c1590 Fowler II 193/28.
Whytings 1605 6th Rep. Hist. MSS App. 667/2.
Quytingis 1664 Household Bks. Archb. Sharp in Misc. Maitl. C. II 505.
For a dishe of quhitingis 1684 Sibbald Scot. Illustr. iii 23.
Asellus mollis, … nostratibus a whiting(b) 1515 Treas. Acc. V 21.
Fresch quhittingis of divers prices c1550 Edinb. Univ. MS No. 553.
In quhittingis (fresche) 1598 Stirling Ant. III 308.
Item, dosane small quhyttings 1609 Aberd. Eccl. Rec. 70. 1612 Bk. Rates (Halyb.) 305.
Whyttings the barrell, xl s. 1662 Banff Ann. I 146. 1721 in Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. I 39.
Whittings(c) 1512 Household Bk. Jas. IV fol. 4a.
Item for pranys quhyttynis & cruff fisch vi d. 1512 Facs. Nat. MSS III x. ?1549 Monro W. Isles (1884) 62.
Whytteins 1624 Reg. Great S. 202/2.
Quhyttinis 1664 Household Bks. Archb. Sharp in Misc. Maitl. C. II 505.
For a dishe of dryed quhittines Ib. 521.
Whittanes 1665 Ib. 525.
Whittines 1663–6 Ib. MS 47.
Whitteines 1666 Nicoll Diary 453.
Whyttins(d) ?a1648 Polemo-Mid. 6.
Whitenius 1663 Old Ross-shire I 151.
And ane dische off rost quytines 1699 Foulis Acc. Bk. 256.
Whitins(2) attrib. 1587 Ayr B. Acc. 38.
William Hunter quhyten seller