This Saxon word meant originally cattle, and thence property or money, and,by a second transition, wages, reward, or fee. It was probably the original form fromwhich the words “feod,” “feudum,” […]

In forest law. The fawning season of deer.

A certain portion of the produce of the land due by the grantee to the lordaccording to the terms of the charter. Spel. Feuds, c. 7.

Wild beasts.

Ital. A kind of small vessel or boat. Mentioned in old Scotch law , andcalled “fercost.” Skene.

A fardel-land; ten acres; or perhaps a yard-land. Cowell.FERDFARE. Sax. A summons to serve in the army. An acquittance from going intothe army. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 47,

A term denoting, apparently, a freeman of the lowest class, being named after the cotscti.

In Saxon law. An acquittance of manslaughter committed in the army;also a fine imposed on persons for not going forth on a military expedition. Cowell.

In old English law . A weekday ; a holiday; a day on which process could notbe served; a fair; a ferry. Cowell; Du Cange; Spelman.

Holidays; also weekdays, as distinguished from Sunday. Cowell.

Lat Dangerous; perilous. Periculosum est res novas et inusita- tas inducere. Co. Litt 370a. It is perilous to introduce new and untried things. Periculosum existimo quod bonorum virorum non comprobatur […]

Lat. Of a wild nature or disposition . Animals which are by naturewild are so designated, by way of distinction from such as are naturally tame, the latterbeing called “domitir […]

In old European law. A wound; a stroke. Spelman.

In Roman law. Holidays; generally speaking, days or seasons during whichfree-born Romans suspended their political transactions and their lawsuits, and duringwhich slaves enjoyed a cessation from labor, all ferice were […]

In old records. The fourth part of a penny; also the quarter of a ward in a borough.

A fourth part of a yard- land.

A furlong. Co. Litt 56.

A house or land, or both, let by lease. Cowell.

A farm; a rent; a lease; a house or land, or both, taken by indenture orlease. Plowd. 195; Vicat. See FARM.

Decomposing carbohdrates in materials into its parts. There are products like yogurt that are the result of fermentation process.

Beverages produced by, or which have undergone, a process of alcoholic fermentation , to which they owe their intoxicating properties, including beer, wine, hard cider, and the like, but not […]

A lessee: a farmer. One who holds a term, whether of lands oran incorporeal right, such as customs or revenue.

In French law . One who farms any public revenue.

In old English law . The winter season for killing deer.

In old records. A place In monasteries, where they received the poor,(hospicio cxcipicbant,) and gave them provisions, (fcrm, firma.) Spelman. Hence themodern infirmary, used iu the sense of a hospital.