EDD Help

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:32 PM -0500 3/26/02, Kathleen E. Miller wrote:
>Anybody got a copy of the EDD? I need the definition, locality and dates
>for fainaigue.
>
Shr. Hrf. Glo. Wil. Dor. Dev. Cor.  [with variant forms]

1. to revoke at cards, renege (<Notes & Queries 1888)

2. to fail of a promise, to play truant, to shirk work (<N&Q 1854)

3. to deceive by flattery; to obtain by improper means, to cheat
(just Cornish, with a cite from 1895)

I'm not sure the implication is that the dates for (1) and (2) are
necessarily the EDD's first cites; the dating policy seems much more
sporadic than the OED's.

larry