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from The Century Dictionary.

  • To invest with a fee or feud; give or grant a fee to; enfeoff.
  • To endow.
  • noun See fief.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb (Law) To invest with a fee or feud; to give or grant a corporeal hereditament to; to enfeoff.
  • noun (Law) A fief. See fief.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun law A fief.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a piece of land held under the feudal system

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