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† vesteye, v. Obs. rare.
Also vestoy-.
[app. ad. an unrecorded AF. *vesteier, OF. *vestoier, of obscure origin.]
trans. To inspect, examine. Hence † vesteying vbl. n.
c1410Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) xxv, It is to weten þat ofte tyme a deere is herbored with vestoynge of mannys eye. Ibid. xxx, If his lymer be dislaue, late him vesteye it with his eye. Ibid. xxxiii, And if þe lymer ouershete, or kan not put it forth, euery hunter þat þere is, ought to go somedele a broode forto se yf þei may fynde þe reghtes with vesteynge of eye. |