Obs. Also 6–7 fewmishing, (6 femysshyng, femishing). 7–8 fimashing. [app. f. OF. femer, fumer to dung [see FUMET2), + -ish (on the analogy of vbs. a. Fr. vbs. in -iss-, -ir) + -ING1.] The excrement (of a deer). Cf. FUMETS.

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1517.  St. Papers Hen. VIII., VI. 598. The scantlyn and femysshyng of such deir.

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1575.  [see CROTEY sb.].

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1596.  Harington, Metam. Ajax. (1814), 47. For hunting, when you have harboured a stag, or lodged a buck, doth not the keeper before he come to rouse him from his lodging (not without some ceremony), shew you his femishing, and thereby you may judge if he be a seasonable deer?

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1598.  Manwood, Lowes Forest, iv. § 6 (1615), 45. Of all Deere, the ordure is called fewmets or fewmishing.

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1726.  Dict. Rust. (ed. 3), Fimashing (among Hunters) the Dunging of any sort of wild Beasts.

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