Word Meanings - INFEUDATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of putting one in possession of an estate in fee. Sir M. Hale. 2. The granting of tithes to laymen. Blackstone.

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• PUTTYROOT
  An American orchidaceous plant which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called
• PUTTER-ON
  An instigator. Shak.
• POSSESSIONER
  1. A possessor; a property holder. "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney. 2. An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc.,
• PUTT
  A stroke made on the putting green to play the ball into a hole.
• PUTTING GREEN
  The green, or plot of smooth turf, surrounding a hole. "The term putting green shall mean the ground within twenty yards of the hole, excepting hazards." Golf Rules.
• PUTTEE
  See GAITER
• POSSESSIONARY
  Of or pertaining to possession; arising from possession.
• PUTTOCK
  The European kite. The buzzard. The marsh harrier.
• GRANT
  yield, LL. creantare to promise, assure, for credentare to make believe, fr. L. credens, p. pr. of credere to believe. See 1. To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.
• PUTTER
  1. One who puts or plates. 2. Specifically, one who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, and the like.
• ESTATE
  The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm , which are the lords spiritual, the lords
• POSSESSION
  The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful. Note: Possession may be either actual or constructive; actual, when a party has the immediate occupancy;
• PUTTY-FACED
  White-faced; -- used contemptuously. Clarke.
• PUTTY
  A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes. Putty
• GRANTEE
  The person to whom a grant or conveyance is made. His grace will not survive the poor grantee he despises. Burke.
• GRANTABLE
  Capable of being granted.
• GRANTER
  One who grants.
• PUTTIER
  One who putties; a glazier.
• GRANTOR
  The person by whom a grant or conveyance is made.
• PUTTING
  The throwing of a heavy stone, shot, etc., with the hand raised or extended from the shoulder; -- originally, a Scottish game. Putting stone, a heavy stone used in the game of putting.
• IMMIGRANT
  One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
• REESTATE
  To reëstablish. Walis.
• DEHONESTATE
  To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see
• FLAGRANT
  1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in
• INTEGRANT
  Making part of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing; integral. Boyle. All these are integrant parts of the republic. Burke. Integrant parts, or particles, of bodies, those smaller particles into which a body may be reduced without loss
• VAGRANTNESS
  State of being vagrant; vagrancy.
• INTESTATE
  1. Without having made a valid will; without a will; as, to die intestate. Blackstone. Airy succeeders of intestate joys. Shak. 2. Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will; as, an intestate estate.
• FRAGRANT
  fragrance: cf. OF. fragrant. Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. Milton. Syn. -- Sweet-smelling; odorous; odoriferous;
• DISPOSSESSION
  The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; -- called also ouster. (more info) 1. The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed. Bp. Hall.
• MIGRANT
  Migratory. Sir T. Browne. -- n.
• SELF-POSSESSION
  The possession of one's powers; calmness; self-command; presence of mind; composure.