Obs. Also 6 faid. a. A company of hunters, b. ? The leader of the hunt.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, IV. iii. 56.
Quhen that the rangis and the faid on breid | |
Dynnis throw the gravis, sersing the woddis wyde. |
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.
1567. Sempill, Inclination of King, in Ballates (1872), 2. The faid also rycht feitlie could he set.
1606. Birnie, Kirk-Buriall (1833), 25. The formest [ship] doth fuir before with lantern and flag, as fade whom the rest should follow.