FEUD
\fjˈuːd], \fjˈuːd], \f_j_ˈuː_d]\
Definitions of FEUD
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
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A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.
By Oddity Software
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A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
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A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A deadly quarrel between tribes or families; a bloody strife.
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A fief or land held on condition of service.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Vindictive hostility between families or clans, commonly hereditary.
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Land held of a superior on condition of rendering service.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] Quarrel; contention; mortal strife;—a combination of kindred to revenge injuries or affronts done or offered to any of their blood;—an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties in a state; deadly hatred; affray; broil; contest.
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n. [Norman French, Italian] A stipendiary estate in land held of a superior by service; a fleif; a fee.
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