Sc. Also 7–8 fogage, (7 foggadge). [ad. Sc. Law-Lat. (14th c. fogagium) prob. f. FOG sb.1]

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  1.  Law. The pasturing of cattle on ‘fog’; the privilege of doing this.

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a. 1500[?].  trans. Leges Forestarum, xv. in Sc. Acts (1844), I. 690. Gif þe king will set gers be þe tym of fogage be quhilk is fra þe fest of all hallowys quhil þe fest of Sanct Patrik in lentryn ilk beest sal pay viij d. for fogage [Orig. per tempus fogagii … pro fogagio].

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1593.  Sc. Acts Jas. VI. (1597), § 161. That the saidis glebes be designed with freedome of foggage, pastourage, fewall, faill, diffat, loning, frie ischue and entrie.

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1872.  C. Innes, Lect. Scot. Legal Antiq., vi. 252. The foggage of the Bishop’s forest of Birss.

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  2.  MOSS; = FOG sb.1 2.

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1786.  Burns, To a Mouse, iv.

        An’ naething, now, to big a new ane
          O’ foggage green!

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