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Barrel-shaped, or like a cask in form.

yearly payment made by some tenants to the king, or to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets. Cowell.

Georgia; -- a nickname.

Missouri; -- a nickname.

To put in a coffin. [R.]

; to invest with a fief or fee; to invest (any one) with a freehold estate by the process of feoffment. Mozley & W.

The act of enfeoffing.

In the United States army, the Corps of Engineers, a corps of officers and enlisted men consisting of one band and three battalions of engineers commanded by a brigadier general, whose title is Chief of Engineers. It has charge of the construction of fortifications for land and seacoast defense, the improvement of rive…

From office; by virtue, or as a consequence, of an office; officially.

Proceeding from office or authority.

Not prescribed by official duty.

Foreign to a profession; not within the ordinary limits of professional duty or business.

Remote; as, the far-off distance. Cf. Far-off, under Far, adv.

, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feoffed; p. pr. & vb. n.. Feoffing.] Etym: [OE. feffen, OF. feffer, fieffer, F. fieffer, fr. fief fief; cf. LL. feoffare, fefare. See Fief.] (Law)

The person to whom a feoffment is made; the person enfeoffed.

The grant of a feud or fee.

One who enfeoffs or grants a fee.

Proof against fire; incombustible.

The act or process of rendering anything incombustible; also, the materials used in the process.

The lines of the spectrun; especially and properly, the dark lines of the solar spectrum, so called because first accurately observed and interpreted by Fraunhofer, a German physicist.