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Feud :: Feud (n.) A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed..

Knight :: Knight (n.) In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback and admitted to a certain military rank with special ceremonies, including an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless life..

Adscript :: Adscript (n.) One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf.

Fealty :: Fealty (n.) Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyality. It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation..

Infeudation :: Infeudation (n.) The granting of tithes to laymen.

Arriere-ban :: Arriere-ban (n.) A proclamation, as of the French kings, calling not only their immediate feudatories, but the vassals of these feudatories, to take the field for war; also, the body of vassals called or liable to be called to arms, as in ancient France..

Feudalize :: Feudalize (v. t.) To reduce toa feudal tenure; to conform to feudalism.

Feudatory :: Feudatory (n.) A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief.

Feudality :: Feudality (n.) The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution.

Allodium :: Allodium (n.) Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud..

Enfeoff :: Enfeoff (v. t.) To give a feud, or right in land, to; to invest with a fief or fee; to invest (any one) with a freehold estate by the process of feoffment..

Castle-guard :: Castle-guard (n.) A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time..

Feudary :: Feudary (n.) A feodary. See Feodary.

Feoff :: Feoff (v. t.) To invest with a fee or feud; to give or grant a corporeal hereditament to; to enfeoff.

Feudary :: Feudary (n.) A tenant who holds his lands by feudal service; a feudatory.

Feudataty :: Feudataty (a. & n.) See Feudatory.

Coshering :: Coshering (n.) A feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant's house.

Bailey :: Bailey (n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle.

Feodality :: Feodality (n.) Feudal tenure; the feudal system. See Feudality.

Adscript :: Adscript (a.) Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs.

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