Word Meanings - HERIOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease

Additional info about word: HERIOT

Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant. Blackstone. Bouvier. Heriot custom, a heriot depending on usage. -- Heriot service , a heriot due by reservation in a grant or lease of lands. Spelman. Blackstone.

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• BEASTLIHEAD
  Beastliness. Spenser.
• MODERN
  1. Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. Bacon. 2. New and common;
• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• DEATHLY
  Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
• BEASTLIKE
  Like a beast.
• DEATHLINESS
  The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• BEASTLINESS
  The state or quality of being beastly.
• BEASTINGS
  See BIESTINGS
• TENANT
  One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title
• DEATHWATCH
  A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
• CUSTOMARY
  Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate. (more info) 1. Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual. Even now I met him With customary compliment.
• MODERNIZATION
  The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting.
• DEATHWARD
  Toward death.
• TENANTLESS
  Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion. Shak.
• TRIBUTER
  One who works for a certain portion of the ore, or its value. Note: Tributers generally work in gangs, and have a limited portion of a lode set them, called a tribute pitch, beyond which they are not permitted to work, and for which they receive
• GOODSHIP
  Favor; grace. Gower.
• TENANT SAW
  See TENON
• BEASTHOOD
  State or nature of a beast.
• PAYMENT
  1. The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation. No man envieth the payment of a debt. Bacon. 2. That which is paid; the thing given in discharge of a debt, or an obligation, or in fulfillment of a promise;
• REPAYMENT
  1. The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor. 2. The money or other thing repaid.
• TER-TENANT
  See TERRE-TENANT
• SUBLIEUTENANT
  An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank.
• DRY GOODS
  A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries.
• TERRE-TENANT
  One who has the actual possession of land; the occupant.
• RETRIBUTER
  One who makes retribution.
• SEA BEAST
  Any large marine mammal, as a seal, walrus, or cetacean.
• UNDERTENANT
  The tenant of a tenant; one who holds lands or tenements of a tenant or lessee.