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▪ I. paying, vbl. n.1|ˈpeɪɪŋ|
[f. pay v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of pay v.1
†1. Pleasing, indulgence. Obs.
c1440Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) i. lxiii, Vayne gladnes & well payeng of thiselfe.
2. a. The action of recompensing (a person) with money, or giving (money) for something; payment; also fig.: see senses of pay v.1
1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 174 He is nocht..to put him self in povertee..for his fynaunce paying. c1530L. Cox Rhet. (1899) 58 While this summe was in payenge. 1663Gerbier Counsel 60 They are to mannage the paying of their own workmen. 1759Hume Hist. Eng. (1812) XIV. xxviii. 13 The paying of court..to the haughty cardinal. Mod. Can't we go in without paying?
b. With adverbs: see pay v.1 Also attrib.
1890Pall Mall G. 4 Oct. 7/1 Keeping a watchful eye on..the indicator on the paying-out drum;..he knew..the amount of cable paid out. 1896Strand Mag. XII. 349/1 The life-line and pipe are attached,..and the diver is ready to step over the side... There is a great splash,..a rapid paying out of life and pipe lines. a1901Besant Five Years' Tryst (1902) 89 Market day is also the one busy day at the Bank. All day long there is paying-in; all day long there is paying-out.
c. spec. in paying-in slip: in Banking, a form listing cash, cheques, etc. which are paid in to the credit of an account; paying-off pennant (or pendant): a pennant flown by a homeward-bound naval ship or by a merchant vessel that will shortly discharge all hands.
1898H. T. Easton Work of Bank iv. 26 The ‘paying-in’ slip can be utilised for pasting in the cash-book and ledger. 1968‘C. Aird’ Henrietta Who? x. 91 According to the paying-in slips, she always handed it over herself. 1974‘S. Woods’ Done to Death 50 When she makes up her paying-in slip for the Bank whatever cash there is has been taken over the counter. 1977Grimsby Even. Tel. 14 May 5/8 Mrs. ― said she had signed other names ‘on bank paying-in slips and things like that’.
1914‘Bartimeus’ Naval Occasions xxiii. 212 The paying-off pendant looks as if it were impatient. 1927B. M. Chambers Salt Junk 50 At last the great day came: the hoisting of the paying-off pendant, a yard for every day of the commission. It was so long that the gilded bladder on the end fouled the houses which bordered the creek. 1954Bradford & Quill Gloss. Sea Terms 142/2 Paying-off pennant, flown by a naval vessel when homeward bound from a foreign station. 1961F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 158 Paying off pennant, an extremely long pennant hoisted as a sign that a ship is shortly ‘paying off’. 1977Navy News Aug. 40 H.M.S. Matapan enters Portsmouth Harbour for the last time, paying off pennant suspended from a large balloon.
▪ II. paying, vbl. n.2
[f. pay v.2 + -ing1.]
The action of pay v.2, q.v.
1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 36 The only..Defence of Ships against the Worm..was the paying the Hulls from the Waters edge downwards with Stuff. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I. s.v., A new Coat of Tallow and Soap, or one of Train-Oil, Rosin and Brimestone,..is put upon her, that is called Paying of a Ship. 1882Morris Hopes & Fears for Art iv. 137 A mere paying it over with four coats of tinted lead-pigment.
▪ III. paying, ppl. a.
[f. pay v.1 + -ing2.]
That pays; remunerative: see the verb. paying guest: a lodger.
1853E. Clacy Lady's Visit Gold Diggings Austral. 111 The two holes were ‘bottomed’ before noon with no paying result. 1871Trans. Illinois Agric. Soc. VIII. 238 We need not expect to get a paying crop from stiff clays. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. IV. viii. 363 His skill was relied on by many paying patients. 1879Trollope John Caldigate I. x. 135 ‘It's a paying concern, I suppose,’ said Caldigate. ‘It has paid;..Whether it's played out or not, I'm not so sure...’ 1882H. De Windt Equator 123 The latter is the most paying [crop] of all. 1893F. C. Selous Trav. S.E. Africa 1 It was a very paying business. 1895G. Gissing Paying Guest i. 7 It's a very common arrangement nowadays, you know; they are called ‘paying guests’. 1900Lancet 15 Sept. 790/1 Some few of her young men ‘paying-guests’..appeared to recognise the drug. 1929E. F. Benson Paying Guests i. 9 Never had Wentworth and Balmoral and..Belvoir entertained so continuous a complement of paying guests. 1957J. Braine Room at Top i. 16 Her voice paused perceptibly at the word lodger as if considering..the euphemisms—paying guest..and so on. 1958J. Cannan And be a Villain vii. 148 Next pew—paying patients..then the doctors, the colleagues ‘showing up’. |