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?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. b The fole in his bable, hath pleasure for to toye. The clerke in his boke, the marchaunt in richesse The knyght in his horse, harnes and hardynesse.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ix. sig. V8 But other some could not abide to toy, All pleasaunce was to them griefe and annoy.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 674 The Sensless Atoms, playing and toying up and down, without any care or thought.

1773 G. White Let. 9 Nov. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 98 Titlarks not only sing sweetly as they sit on trees, but also as they play and toy about on the wing.

1827 R. Pollok Course of Time I. v. 257 The hare, unscared, Sported; and toyed familiar with his dog.

1904 Trans. Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists' Soc. 7 369 Two fine Falcons, one of them chased by a cloud of Terns, the other gyrating and toying in the air with some Lesser Black-backed Gulls.

2007 M. Smalley & A. Smalley More than Match v. 67 The next occasion you have some thinking time—toying around on your laptop during a long flight, sitting on a park bench, taking in a sunset—type in or write down some qualities in a potential mate that would be important to you.