FPage 67
- English Word Fettle Definition The act of fettling.
- English Word Fettling Definition A mixture of ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace.
- English Word Fettling Definition The operation of shaving or smoothing the surface of undried clay ware.
- English Word Fetuous Definition Neat; feat.
- English Word Fetus Definition The young or embryo of an animal in the womb, or in the egg; often restricted to the later stages in the development of viviparous and oviparous animals, embryo being applied to the earlier stages.
- English Word Fetuses Definition of Fetus
- English Word Fetwah Definition A written decision of a Turkish mufti on some point of law.
- English Word Feu Definition 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.
- English Word Feu de joie Definition A fire kindled in a public place in token of joy; a bonfire; a firing of guns in token of joy.
- English Word Feuar Definition One who holds a feu.
- English Word Feud Definition A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
- English Word Feud Definition A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed.
- English Word Feud Definition 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.
- English Word Feudal Definition Of or pertaining to feuds, fiefs, or feels; as, feudal rights or services; feudal tenures.
- English Word Feudal Definition Consisting of, or founded upon, feuds or fiefs; embracing tenures by military services; as, the feudal system.
- English Word Feudalism Definition 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.
- English Word Feudalist Definition An upholder of feudalism.
- English Word Feudality Definition The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution.
- English Word Feudalize Definition To reduce toa feudal tenure; to conform to feudalism.
- English Word Feudalized Definition of Feudalize
- English Word Feudalizing Definition of Feudalize
- English Word Feudally Definition In a feudal manner.
- English Word Feudary Definition Held by, or pertaining to, feudal tenure.
- English Word Feudary Definition A tenant who holds his lands by feudal service; a feudatory.
- English Word Feudary Definition A feodary. See Feodary.
- English Word Feudataty Definition See Feudatory.
- English Word Feudatories Definition of Feudatory
- English Word Feudatory Definition A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief.
- English Word Feudist Definition A writer on feuds; a person versed in feudal law.
- English Word Feudtory Definition Held from another on some conditional tenure; as, a feudatory title.