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In Shetland and Orkney, a freehold; property held by udal, or allodial, right.

Vars. of Odal, etc. Obs. exc. in Shetland and the Orkney Islands, where udal designates land held in fee simple without any charter and free of any feudal character.

In the Shetland and Orkney Islands, one who holds property by udal, or allodial, right. Sir W. Scott.

Having, or terminating in, two tails.

ining to, a tail; having a tail-like appendage. The male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes. Darwin. Caudal fin (Zoöl.), the terminal fin (or "tail") of a fish.

To deprive of the feudal character or form.

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.

Of or pertaining to marshes or fens; marshy. [R.] Paludal fever, malarial fever; -- so called because generated in marshy districts.

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the tail; as, the subcaudal, or chevron, bones.

To free from feudal customs or character; to make not feudal. Carlyle.

ve out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Obs.] That he might . . . abandon them from him. Udall. Being all this time abandoned from your bed. Shak.

, or dislike; to be contrary or averse; -- with from. [Obs.] "To abhor from those vices." Udall. Which is utterly abhorring from the end of all law. Milton.

Crookedly. [R.] Udall.

Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs.