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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See wergild.

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

  • noun (O. Eng. Law) The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It was paid by the murderer.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of wergeld.

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    March 7, 2007