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Aid
verb · 78% connection
A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his lord on special occasions.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, payment, tribute, arms, military.
Appointment
noun · 78% connection
Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever is appointed for use and management; outfit; (pl.) the accouterments of milit…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, payment, tribute, arms, military.
Armed forces
noun · 78% connection
the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, payment, tribute, arms, military.
Armed services
noun · 78% connection
the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, payment, tribute, arms, military.
Attornment
noun · 78% connection
The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, payment, tribute, arms, military.
Average
noun · 78% connection
That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, payment, tribute, arms, military.
Base
adjective · 78% connection
Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, payment, tribute, arms, military.
Beast
noun · 78% connection
A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, payment, tribute, arms, military.
Best
adjective · 78% connection
Having good qualities in the highest degree; most good, kind, desirable, suitable, etc.; most excellent; as, the best man; the best ro…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, payment, tribute, arms, military.
Bordlode
noun · 78% connection
The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, payment, tribute, arms, military.
Brennage
noun · 78% connection
A tribute which tenants paid to their lord, in lieu of bran, which they were obliged to furnish for his hounds.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, payment, tribute, arms, military.
Carcass
noun · 78% connection
A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, payment, tribute, arms, military.
Cope
noun · 78% connection
An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, payment, tribute, arms, military.
Coroner
noun · 78% connection
An officer of the peace whose principal duty is to inquire, with the help of a jury, into the cause of any violent, sudden or mysterio…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, payment, tribute, arms, military.
Cotenant
noun · 78% connection
A tenant in common, or a joint tenant.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, payment, tribute, arms, military.
Deodand
noun · 78% connection
A personal chattel which had caused the death of a person, and for that reason was given to God, that is, forfeited to the crown, to b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, payment, tribute, arms, military.
Discontinuance
noun · 78% connection
A breaking off or interruption of an estate, which happened when an alienation was made by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, payment, tribute, arms, military.
Drill
noun · 78% connection
The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, payment, tribute, arms, military.
