vbl. sb. [f. BLADE v. + -ING1.]

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  1.  The shooting out into blade; sprouting.

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1548.  Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. Luke viii. In the first bladyng it perished.

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1653.  T. Bailey, Life Fisher, i. (1655), 7. The bladeing of the Field.

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  † 2.  Fighting with blades or swords. Obs.

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1577.  Holinshed, Descr. Irel., in Chron., II. 17/2. He maketh blading his dailie breakefast.

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a. 1624.  Bp. M. Smith, Serm. (1632), 278. Whence are quarrels, blading, wounds without cause?

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