Feud
A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed.
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.
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Feud Quotations
The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey.
Ernest Thompson Seton
Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
Oliver Reed
It's almost not safe to be an artist, the way everybody is randomly picking people to feud with.
Busta Rhymes
I want to manufacture a feud.
Rob Corddry
The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud.
Leslie Charteris
Feud Translations
feud in German is Fehde
feud in Norwegian is feide, strid
feud in Spanish is feudo
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