Thesaurus: feud

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1. n. A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
2. n. A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed.
3. n. 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.
4. n. a bitter quarrel between two parties
5. v. carry out a feud
6. 1. A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race. 2. A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed. Mutual feuds and battles betwixt their several tribes and kindreds. Purchas. Syn. -- Affray; fray; broil; contest; dispute; strife. 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.
7. A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; theright which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovablething of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereofhereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services asbelong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil alwaysremaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.
8. v:21/n:79 n. a bitter quarrel between two parties v. carry out a feud