Obs. Also 6 faid. a. A company of hunters, b. ? The leader of the hunt.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, IV. iii. 56.

        Quhen that the rangis and the faid on breid
Dynnis throw the gravis, sersing the woddis wyde.

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1536.  Bellenden, Cron. Scot. (1821), I. 205. Quhen the faid had brocht in the wolf afore the houndis, the skry arais, and ilk man went to his gam.

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1567.  Sempill, Inclination of King, in Ballates (1872), 2. The faid also rycht feitlie could he set.

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1606.  Birnie, Kirk-Buriall (1833), 25. The formest [ship] … doth fuir before with lantern and flag, as fade whom the rest should follow.

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