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A free and gratuitous right to lands made to one for service to be performed by him; a tenure where the vassal, in place of military services, makes a return in grain or in money. Burrill.

A fire kindled in a public place in token of joy; a bonfire; a firing of guns in token of joy.

One who holds a feu. Sir W. Scott.

amilies, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed. Mutual feuds and battles betwixt their several tribes and kindreds. Purchas.

Of or pertaining to feuds, fiefs, or feels; as, feudal rights or services; feudal tenures.

The feudal system; a system by which the holding of estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military service to the kind or feudal superior; feudal principles and usages.

An upholder of feudalism.

The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution. Burke.

The act of reducing to feudal tenure.

To reduce toa feudal tenure; to conform to feudalism.

In a feudal manner.

Held by, or pertaining to, feudal tenure.

See Feudatory.

A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief. The grantee . . . was styled the feudatory or vassal. Blackstone. [He] had for feudatories great princes. J. H. Newman.

A writer on feuds; a person versed in feudal law. Spelman.

A reformed branch of the Bernardines, founded in 1577 at Feuillans, near Toulouse, in France.

Having the color of a faded leaf. Locke.

A part of a French newspaper (usually the bottom of the page), devoted to light literature, criticism, etc.; also, the article or tale itself, thus printed.

A writer of feuilletons. F. Harrison.

To set close; to fix in rest, as a spear. Spenser.