way-going

See also: waygoing

English

Adjective

way-going (not comparable)

  1. Going away; departing.
  2. (law) Of or relating to one who goes away.
    A way-going crop is a crop of grain to which tenants for years are sometimes entitled by custom, despite not ripening until after the termination of the lease.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “way-going”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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